As I was preparing to preach for our series You Are What You Eat—a series centered on Scripture, my teacher and friend Madel Vanguardia of Every Nation Seminary and Every Nation Leadership Institute introduced me to a and humbling doctrine: The Perspicuity of Scripture. The timing could not have been more perfect. I was deep in study, preparing a message on the comprehensibility of God’s Word, and this truth grounded me in something I needed to remember.

God did not give us His Word so that only the brilliant could find Him.
He did not reveal Himself so that only the educated could understand.
He speaks so that He may be known, not merely admired from a distance.

The doctrine of the perspicuity of Scripture simply means this: Not every part of the Bible is equally simple or instantly clear, but everything necessary for salvation has been made understandable to ordinary believers through ordinary means—hearing, reading, reflecting, obeying.

And this clarity does not depend on human intellect or theological training. It rests on God’s desire to reveal Himself.

One of the clearest pictures of this is found at the Last Supper.

There was no academic lecture.
No philosophical treatise.
No theological jargon.

Just a table.
Bread.
Wine.
A Savior who spoke clearly enough for fishermen, tax collectors, and ordinary men to understand.

“This is my body.”
“This is my blood.”
“Do this in remembrance of Me.” (Luke 22:19–20)

No complexity—yet infinite depth.
No confusion—yet eternal weight.

Jesus did not just share information; He revealed Himself. He made redemption visible. Touchable. Consumable. A truth even a child could receive, yet profound enough for the Church to meditate on for centuries.

And this is what humbles me today.

I do not need to understand everything to know Him truly.
I do not need intellectual mastery to walk with Him.
I only need to see what He has made clear—and He has made Christ unmistakably clear.

The Bible does not call me to conquer every mystery.
It calls me to believe what God has revealed.

Scripture is not a maze.
It is a table—where Christ invites us to come, eat, remember, and live.