What a book! Great and wide as the world, rooted in the abysmal depths of creation and rising aloft into the blue mysteries of heaven. Sunrise and sunset, promise and fulfillment, birth and death, the whole human drama, everything is in this book. It is the book of books, Biblia.
~Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
Oh beloved, the deeper we go into His Word, we begin to see that it is like going into the ocean depths. As we get deeper, the weight of the truths exerts a crushing pressure on our flesh and spirit.
Intellect and study begin (quickly) to fail as tools to actually understand what is going on here. It is Him speaking to us directly through the words of a miraculously constructed book of books. Oh yeah, we gotta study. And, oh yeah, we can prove the book itself is true. Any student willing to take a little time, especially in this age of information, can look to any number of exhaustive resources on the validity of the book itself.
However, it is WAY deeper than this. Again, it is Him and the weight of His Glory that simply begins to overwhelm us. We cannot resist the change. It is all about Him, His Truth, His Spirit, and His Glory. His Word hammers into the deep crevices of who we are.
We begin to come undone.
Try an experiment.
Don’t test G_d. He never fails. Test your own spirit and see if He doesn’t speak right to you. Take a passage (try Romans 8, for example), get alone and read it out loud. Read it straight through like you are reading a letter from SomeOne to you (you are). Just listen as you read. Don’t try to intellectualize. Don’t try to understand. Just listen to Him speak as you read. Just try it… Then, take the same passage, and do the same thing later in the day, or the next day. I will guarantee you something. He will use the passage to communicate additional truth the second, third, fourth, and so on time through.
HE is amazing.
Friends, the Bible is not a book about G_d. It is G_d telling us about Himself. Would that we would take large portions of our day to listen to Him this way!
