Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in James 1:5, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Proverbs 2:3
Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
- John 15:7
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
- Jeremiah 29:12
Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
- Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
- 1 John 5:14
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
- Matthew 7:7
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
- 2 Chronicles 1:10
Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?
- James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, …
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.