Word.

This has been an interesting couple weeks for me. Things have been going so unbelievably well. God is ordering so many things in my life that I am amazed. However, in the midst of these wonderful moments I have for some reason been unable to really dive into the Word. I suppose it is largely due to the fact that I have been pursuing scholasticism and had began to suck the life out of the Word because I was analyzing and critically thinking it to death. As ashamed as I am about this predicament, I have found that in my "murdering" of Scripture by my red pen marks and highlighter trails has caused something incredible to occur. Instead of trying to keep my thinking about Scripture stayed on my perspective, I just let it "die." However, in that "death" I realized something. The Word doesn't die and even when it seems like it is dead, give is about three days and watch the Resurrection that changed the world. That is what I am finding today - resurrection in my life. My separation from the Word caused my loss of the life giving power of the Word, and thus I rendered myself dead. But strangely I found that as I asked God to help me as I approached the Word, I was rejuvenated. I found so much power in the words of the Word. Immediately I realized that the Word is so connected with Jesus, in fact it is called Jesus a few times in the Bible - so if I divorce myself from the Word, I divorce myself from Jesus, who is everything. I love that God totally spoke to this last night in small group and I was reminded the necessity of getting in the Word not to know with our heads but to know relationally. Knowing the Word is getting to know Jesus, since the book is about revealing him to the earth. I encourage you to get in the Word. He'll blow your mind with how he speaks. 

- peaks out.