![]() ![]() When the Word is described as radiant light, I think about how the prophets of Israel never went out and found the Word of God, it always came to them. The manifold love of God is seen and known from Genesis through Revelation. When I hear people say that the living God is angry in the Old Testament, but then Jesus shows up in the New Testament and is kind, I have no idea what they are talking about. Rather than having to feed ourselves, we are readying ourselves to receive, to inherit, to take in whatever it is the living God is getting ready to say and do as we interact with Him through the Bible. When we open the Word, we do so as sons and daughters and we posture ourselves to receive. Scripture tells us that “the Law of the Lord is perfect it revives the soul.” But we don’t get very excited about reading the book of Leviticus, so how is it that the Law of the Lord revives our soul? We need to think about our posture, the way we approach the Word of God when we come to the biblical table.Īs we come to the Scriptures, we are not orphans, not fatherless, we don’t have to open it up and dig something out to feed ourselves. In some ancient way is something that is actually happening to us as we interact with it. I’ve discovered that the Bible itself is an adventure. If there’s an adventure to take, I want to take it. ![]() And life with life produces what they would call eternal life, the good life, the marrow of life. In the mouth of the Jews, they would say that anytime we touch the sacred Scriptures, it is life with life. We never actually just read the Bible, we interact with it. It was given to us that we might know who the living God is, what he’s like and what it means to walk with Him. The Bible was given to us by the living God for us to experience together. Studying the Bible contextually is like getting to know Jesus in his Jewish world from 2,000 years ago. There is just something about getting to know them more completely as you get to know their family history and background. When you are dating someone and starting to get serious, what do you do? You go home to meet their family. One thing I love about taking people to the places where these things actually happened – whether virtually or physically – is that it’s like going home with Jesus. In this, we discover an ancient and ever truth: not only is the Bible the best story ever told, but it is also the truest. When we study Scripture in this context, by figuratively traveling back to the biblical world, we can get a better understanding of what the biblical authors meant by what they wrote and a better sense of what the biblical characters were experiencing. In 2007 the Lord opened the door for me to go study the Bible in Egypt and Israel, and since then, I have become a lover of Israel and all things in the Middle East. Through the Bible, we know who the Living God is, what He's like, and what it is to walk with Him. But what's more beautiful is stringing the biblical pearls together. Each story is like a pearl, beautiful and of great price on its own. When the Lord gave us the Bible, He gave us the best and truest story ever told. ![]()
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