Have you ever awaken in the morning in the mountains in Spring? Say, some small meadow in the Sierra-Nevadas. You open your eyes to the wilderness and briskly cold air that instantly makes you want to stay in your sleeping bag or tent. However, you suddenly realize that this is exactly the reason you traveled to get here and that cold air suddenly becomes your wish come true. You rise refreshed and looking forward to every second of this hard fought for day. A day in nature rather than in an office or seat in the cab of a big rig.
Suddenly, you can’t wait for the sun to rise higher so that you can go to the stream and cast a line or just swim in the cold water so fresh and clean that it feels like rebirth and coffee from the campfire tastes better than anything you’ve tasted in months. And, you haven’t yet heard the birds or the wind sighing through the lofty balsams.
This is what it feels like to read the bible at first. Even if you are one who has shunned it due to rumor and lies but finally became curious to find out what the furor was all about. You open it and find writing that is from a mind far superior to that which you experience day to day. A refreshing glimpse of thought different than any you’ve heard all those years. An experience so new that you wonder why the furor.
Is it fact or fiction? This is a natural question for many who read it for the first time and the wonder of it is that God anticipated your reaction, which is why He had the Bible written by men instead of Himself. He dictated it to prophets and they wrote it down verbatim. Difficult to believe? This is why you opened it in the first place isn’t it? Now, you’ve but to read the book and be surprised by how easy it is to understand but with knowledge given freely but that there is much more than a casual read to be had.
It is an amazing experience as you suddenly come to the conclusion that you are reading the words from the one who created you. From God himself. If you do not, well, that is your lookout. It is there right in front of your eyes, which tells you, sooner than later, of the great and wondrous heart of Jehovah God. Of how much He loves you, personally, and not from afar.
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