I grew up in a Bible believing church where, as a young child, I had faithful teachers and pastors who invested time in my life to teach me God’s Word and to model it with their own lives. I also went to a Christian school where teachers interwove Bible truths with traditional learning. We learned that God was real and present in every part of our lives. We were required to memorize the Bible so that its truths were packaged “to go” in our hearts and readily available to us in our times of need.

Most of what I know about the Bible I learned at my church and school as a kid. Those teachings stuck with me, shaped me, comforted me, challenged me, and corrected me. They have been food to my soul.

For some reason, as we grow older, we start to look at those things we learned in our younger years as passé, and we challenge them, abandon them, or totally ignore them. Some of us find our way back, some don’t. For those of us who do, we wonder why we ever doubted, for we see so clearly in our more mature years the truthfulness of God’s Word and the value of its teaching. I wish there was some way that I could impress upon every young person just how “fool proof” a life built on God’s principles is.

Some never completely stray but still face the temptation to find sufficiency in things other than God’s Word. Maybe it’s their own ingenuity or skills, or the teaching of the latest guru, but for some reason they think they know better than God. He lets us try our own thing knowing all the while where we will wind up . . . flat on our faces.

I am thankful for all those who invested in me, and I hope that I am proving to be a profitable return on your investment. As I get older, I see more and more that I can trust God’s Word. I commend God’s Word to you. Let’s get back in the Word. Let’s learn it and live it, read it and heed it. It works.

But you must remain faithful to the things you have been taught. You know they are true, for you know you can trust those who taught you. You have been taught the holy Scriptures from childhood, and they have given you the wisdom to receive the salvation that comes by trusting in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. God uses it to prepare and equip his people to do every good work. – 2 Timothy 3:14-17