When I was home this past week, I stumbled upon a file that was saved on my parents computer. I opened it and read it and realized that I had written this for fun (I don't do that anymore!) a couple years ago when I was not being as consistent with my devotions as I had been growing up. If you read between the lines, I was saying that reading the Bible was going to tell me what I did not want to hear at the time. Thank God for grace-- and redemption.
It's unassuming nature leaves much to be desired.
Desired and still untouched, intimidated by the sheer weight of what you'll find.
Awaking mystery, tempting faith, rousing fears, and provoking questions in the most hardened of minds and closed-off of hearts.
Secrets lie beneath the tough exterior. Before it's even opened, it whispers, "I know something that you don't...."
Light catches the silver-foiled edges, and you know that what you'll find inside will shine so brightly that you will have to avert your eyes, as if the sun was beaming.
Gradually, it entices, then entrances: "Just open and read." You grow thirsty and your stomach pangs with hunger.
In the blink of an eye, the pages fall open, and what is revealed is not as terrifying as you once thought it would be. The world melts in a pool of water at your feet and heaven descends to rest on earth. We then see with heavenly eyes as mysteries are revealed, faith gains strength, fear loses power, and questions are silenced with one simple word: Love. And as your thirst is quenched and your hunger is satiated, the knowledge that you know with your head is overcome with a knowing that floods your soul.
And then you have to avert your eyes once again -- because the Son is beaming.
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