Thursday, May 16, 2019

ENGAGEMENT WITH GOD’S WORD

“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.”  (Matthew 7:24 NIV)

More people these days feel an absence in their lives, expressed as an acute desire for "something more," a spiritual home, a community of faith.  But when they try to read the Bible, they end up throwing it across the room.  To me, this seems encouraging, a good place to start, a sign of real engagement with the God who is revealed in the Scripture.  Others find it easy to dismiss the Bible out of hand, as negative, vengeful, violent.  I can only hope that they are rejecting the violence-as-entertainment of movies and television on the same grounds, and that they say a prayer every time they pick up a daily newspaper or turn on CNN.  In the context of real life, the Bible seems refreshingly whole, an honest reflection on humanity in relation to the sacred and the profane.  I can't learn enough about it, but I also have to trust what little I know, and proceed, in faith, to seek God there.

-- Kathleen Norris in “Amazing Grace”


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