In the past several years, God has shown me some incredible things about His Word.
My education is in English/Language Arts/Literature. One of the things that I found while in school is a love for how the written language works--especially in Literature. I have had immense pleasure in dissecting passages of text and pulling out all of the little things the author included. It is not unlike digging for hidden treasures. It was like I could open the pages and examine what the author said and then examine how the author said it. The deeper I went into the work, the more it seemed that I could find the author in the words.
Well, one day, God directed me to His book.
I had been avoiding doing this because it seemed wrong, somehow, to use something I'd learned with secular writing with the Bible.
But then God said something that made me do a mental double-take. He told me that HE was the author of the Bible, and that He was every bit as clever as anyone who had ever written anything secular.
"I crafted this work for a purpose. I used many hands and many hearts, but I crafted it. Look in my Word and see MY hidden treasures. Look in my work and find ME."
So I began re-reading the word. And this was my quest: The Bible says that God is "the same yesterday, today, and forever," and it says that "God is love." Soooo, what about the Old Testament? I can't count how many times I've heard people refer to the "God of the Old Testament" as a vengeful, judging God," or "you could wring blood from the pages of the Old Testament."
Well, wait a second. If the Bible is true, and it says that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then the God of the Old Testament is the SAME as the God of the New Testament. Jesus didn't change the nature of God... He explained it!
So I looked, starting with Genesis, starting with Man and his fall. . . and I found the God of Love.
In every situation, with every person, with every judgement, Once I started looking for His love, it was plain to see.
Look FOR the God of Love in YOUR Bible, and then FIND Him in your LIFE.
I'll be telling more about this in future posts.
My education is in English/Language Arts/Literature. One of the things that I found while in school is a love for how the written language works--especially in Literature. I have had immense pleasure in dissecting passages of text and pulling out all of the little things the author included. It is not unlike digging for hidden treasures. It was like I could open the pages and examine what the author said and then examine how the author said it. The deeper I went into the work, the more it seemed that I could find the author in the words.
Well, one day, God directed me to His book.
I had been avoiding doing this because it seemed wrong, somehow, to use something I'd learned with secular writing with the Bible.
But then God said something that made me do a mental double-take. He told me that HE was the author of the Bible, and that He was every bit as clever as anyone who had ever written anything secular.
"I crafted this work for a purpose. I used many hands and many hearts, but I crafted it. Look in my Word and see MY hidden treasures. Look in my work and find ME."
So I began re-reading the word. And this was my quest: The Bible says that God is "the same yesterday, today, and forever," and it says that "God is love." Soooo, what about the Old Testament? I can't count how many times I've heard people refer to the "God of the Old Testament" as a vengeful, judging God," or "you could wring blood from the pages of the Old Testament."
Well, wait a second. If the Bible is true, and it says that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then the God of the Old Testament is the SAME as the God of the New Testament. Jesus didn't change the nature of God... He explained it!
So I looked, starting with Genesis, starting with Man and his fall. . . and I found the God of Love.
In every situation, with every person, with every judgement, Once I started looking for His love, it was plain to see.
Look FOR the God of Love in YOUR Bible, and then FIND Him in your LIFE.
I'll be telling more about this in future posts.
I apparently Posted on this before. . . It's still true. :) Here's the link to that Post (it's a bit more detailed. http://drasonshat.blogspot.com/2011/04/if-god-is-love-then-what-about.html
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