Digging Deep
January 13, 2009 | Faith: Knowing Christ
As I’ve delved into Scripture this past week on an assignment for curriculum for a publishing house, I’ve had to dig past the lesson to find the setting, the conflict, the plot, the characters, and how and why and who.
Yesterday I worked several hours and thoughout the day I found myself talking to God, like, “Thank you for reminding me that your mercies are new every morning”.
I received an e-mail from a younger friend, a guy who is going through a tough time right now. He poured out his heart and I prayed for him. I also sent him the questions I was working on that morning.
“Can you help me,” I asked. “Can you tell me what your answers might be?”
I wanted a different perspective. To know that I was staying true to Scripture and the heart of what was taught, rather than trying to comform it to a cultural message of faith.
I also saw nuggets of hope that might speak to his situation.
He wrote back later that night. “Tears are running down my face,” he said. “God spoke to me.”
That’s what the Bible can do. It can transform. It can teach. It can direct. It can comfort. It can also be hard in places. It can make you question why God does what He does. But overall, it reveals a message of redemption played out from word one in Genesis.
I love Eugene Peterson’s interpretation in The Message of the opening line to this great story: First this: God created the Heavens and Earth–all you see, all you don’t see!
So this is my prayer today to the Creator. Help me understand and learn from what I do see as I study, and allow the Holy Spirit to bring to light what I do not see.
I guess a revival of sorts is taking place as I remember all over again that I love His Word.
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Thank you, Suzie.
January 13th, 2009 at 5:54 pmI too want to say thank you for your words.
January 14th, 2009 at 2:03 pm