This morning, I received a update letter from my brother Dan who works in the Caribbean at my Dad's wife's hotel with my sister and their baby. I find myself enriched, challenged, and personally disgusted. Let me explain.
I have been reading through the New Testament. And my life seems completely unchanged. I don't feel as though I am deeply reading the words, nor do they stick on my heart. I read in the morning and in the night now, thinking that will deepen my understanding to be in the word more, but no. Just blank words passing through my mind.
AND I HATE IT! This is the Word of God here. Why is it not amazing to me? Why does not passion burn in my heart to learn, study, and have my life changed?
In Dan's letter, he used several passages from 1 Corinthians. I just read those, literally, like last week. I didn't remember a single one. And when Dan wrote them in his letter, they were enlivened. I understood them, it was amazing! But I seemed to pass over them.
My heart does not understand. I want to learn, to deepen, to grow. I want to be passionate about the word. Why do I just gloss over it then?
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Do you want to know the words, or the God behind them? Because if you're reading a novel to examine the words, you'll probably miss the story; but if you read to discover the author, each sentence is a clue.
Read it like a mystery. Remember, it's the glory of God to conceal a matter, and the glory of kings to search it out.
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