{"id":9651,"date":"2024-02-22T02:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9651"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:26","slug":"the-rewards-of-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9651","title":{"rendered":"THE REWARDS OF BIBLE STUDY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are great rewards for studying Scripture.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Psalm 19:7, King David records two biggies: &#8220;The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reviving the Soul &#8211; God&#8217;s word is like cold, clear water handed to a man lost in the desert. It&#8217;s a second lease on life for the soul.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Making Wise the Simple &#8211; As we continue in God&#8217;s word, even the dullest among us gains more and more wisdom. And wisdom is something that compounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, neither reward is immediate.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But if we truly understood the magnitude of these two rewards of spending time in the Bible, we could muster the patience.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are great rewards for studying Scripture. In Psalm 19:7, King David records two biggies: &#8220;The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.&#8221; Reviving the Soul &#8211; God&#8217;s word is like cold, clear water handed to a man lost in the desert. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9652,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651\/revisions\/9652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}