If we really believed it then we’d really be after it. If we thought it was true, we’d make sure to invest the time.

This morning, I’m chewing on a verse in Psalm 119.

I have seen a limit to all perfection,
       but Your commandment is exceedingly broad.

(Psalm 119:96 ESV)

Perfection. Completeness. It has its limits.

Today’s 10 out of 10 is tomorrow’s 8 — so was it really ever a 10? And even if we think we’ve achieved 10 out of 10, our “perfection” is still capped by a less-than-perfect world. Perfection within an imperfect ecosystem limits all perfection. Makes sense, doesn’t it?

Yet, there is something which is perfect without limit. Something that is exceedingly broad. Something which, because of its source, is boundless (NIV). Something without limit (CSB). Something which even the horizons can’t contain (MSG). And that thing? The B-I-B-L-E . The perfect book for me. God’s spoken word.

While everything created by God has a limit as to its degree of wholeness, that which is spoken by God is beyond measure, surpassing calibration. What is breathed out by God is “profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work” (2Tim. 3:16). An exceedingly broad word is able to make a man of God complete. A boundless revelation — encompassing eternity past to eternity future — all-sufficient to make a woman of God perfectly fitted for whatever God’s purposes for her.

It’s there. Within the covers of the Book. The precepts, the principles, the parables, the pragmatics, without limit as to what it can inform. Fully able to address all stages and stations of life. Applicable in every situation.

Unbounded as to what it can transform. The more it is taken in, the more it renews the mind, leaving in its wake the mind of Christ.

All that is needed in order to conform. When enlivened and enacted through the Spirit, causing us to increasingly reflect the perfect image of God we were created to bear.

How broad is the word of God? Exceedingly broad!

If we really believed that, wouldn’t we purposefully, intentionally, consistently, and persistently be in our Bibles? I’m thinkin’ . . .

By His grace. For His glory.