The Bible itself is a light. The words of God are light. The Scriptures are not so hard to understand as many people suppose. It is an insult to the Lord to teach that He is not able to make His revelation to the human race so plain that they could understand it. He has said just what He wanted to, and in just the way to convey the exact meaning that He wanted conveyed. The words themselves contain the meaning, and he or she who will consider them humbly and prayerfully will understand them.

When the apostle Paul wrote the words of God to Timothy, he said, “Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things” (2 Timothy 2:7). How can this be? Here is the answer: “For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding” (Proverbs 2:6). That is, the understanding of the words of the Bible is in those words. He who reads the words without any bias or prejudice or any selfish ends to serve, who asks for the aid of the Holy Spirit, and who is careful to find out exactly what they do say, and does not put into them something which they do not say, will understand just what God wants him or her to understand by them. But the trouble with too many is, that they come to study the Bible with certain ideas already fixed, which they of course think that the Bible teaches, and then because they cannot harmonize the Bible with those ideas, they think that the Bible is a very difficult book. One of the most common things in the world is for a person to read a text, and then almost unconsciously to assume that it means a certain thing, which is not stated in the text at all.

—Author unknown.