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As Christians, we are to be students of the Word of God and be diligent in building an ever-growing relationship with the Lord. Just as 1 Timothy 2:15 tells us to "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" and that is exactly what God expects of us. Well, how is possible for us to build a meaningful relationship with God and know more about Him if we don't study His Word? Quite honestly, we can't! That is why it is important for us to read the Word productively, and have resources available to us in order that we might be able to rightly divide the Word of truth (2 Tim 2:15).

Before computers became a household item, if someone wanted to get in-depth with the Scriptures, they would have had to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars at their local Christian bookstore in order to obtain commentaries, dictionaries, Bible translations, and so forth. That means, there was a lot of manual legwork involved in doing any kind of exegesis on the Scriptures.

You couldn't easily read different translations side-by-side unless you had a parallel Bible or several different versions opened up to the same passage. What about looking up Matthew Henry's commentary? You'd have to pull the big book off the shelf and open it up to find what you were looking for. Need a definition? Take the Holman Bible dictionary down, adding yet another book to your desk. Oh wait, what about taking down your own notes in an organized manner? Get out the pen & paper! As you can clearly see, before you even get in too far with your studying, you have a mountain of books covering your desk and hardly any room left to do any work!

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