A study commissioned in 2017 by the Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy a few years back suggested that seven percent of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from chocolate/brown cows. If you do the math, that works out to 16.4 million misinformed, milk-drinking individuals. It appears that a group of people three times the population of Alabama does not know that chocolate milk is milk, cocoa, and sugar. How difficult would it actually be for someone to research where chocolate milk comes from? It would be a matter of seconds, right? However, they choose not to do this and therefore choose not to know truth.
Let me ask you this: How much do you rely on what others say, what you have always been taught or what you have always assumed when it comes to your knowledge and understanding of the Bible? How often do you really open the book to read and seek the living truth that flows from it? In Paul’s 2 letter to Timothy, he instructs him to, “Study and do (his) best to present (himself) to God approved, a workman [tested by trial] who has no reason to be ashamed, accurately handling and skillfully teaching the word of truth.”
If your aim is to be a Christian that goes into your world, making disciples and sharing the light of Christ, you cannot be ignorant of God’s word. You must open it. You must soak it in, absorb its truth and relevance. Then, you can allow that to pour out of your heart and life and into lives of others.