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Through the grace of God and what He's been doing lately, the Bible has been---I hope, forever---changed for me. Corrie ten Boom once wrote about the Word of God being so immediate, so timely and so personal that she was almost amazed to find that the ink was already dry. It's been feeling that way to me lately. Oh, wow---He wrote this for *me*. His love is on every page. His mercy. His grace. Who He is. What He did for me. What He continues to do for me.
I liked your analogy to what you've written and how you want your children to read it. It reminds me of something my husband and I once talked about. We have some house rules and most of the children know them. How would we feel, though, if our children would wax eloquent over those rules, giving speeches about them, writing lengthy treatises about them, arguing and discussing them with another---all the while spending less and less time with us. What if the rules took on a life of their own and became more important to them than us? The rules really aren't that important to us. They help things run smoother, sure. But what's far more important is relationship with our children. [This is not to say that holiness or righteousness are not important to God or to us as parents.]
There have been times when, I'm ashamed to admit, I've been more enamored with God's Word than with Him. But the funny thing about that is that it actually became less and less God's Word because I kept approaching it through my own grid, kept imposing my own interpretation and meaning on it. There was actually a time when I went through the Bible marking laws, rules, principles, etc.---as if that was the sum total of God's message to me.
Now...I open God's Word and it's a precious communication from Him. It's not His "Law-Word". It's His "Love-Word". It's what He chose, over centuries, to communicate to His people. It penetrates into my heart. It makes my soul cry out to know Him more and more. It helps me catch more glimpses of His glory. And it always brings me back to the feet of Jesus. The simplicity that is in Christ...I pray fervently that I will never be seduced away from that again.
"But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." --2 Corinthians 11:3
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