You go to church. Often.
You feel reasonably good about your relationship with God.
Have you asked Him how He feels?
Does He feel neglected because you haven't found time to enter into His largest conversation piece?
He gathered 66 books, inspired their dozens of literary genres through nearly as many authors, expressing it in multiple languages over a span of several thousand years.
That is a lot of effort. You think He means for us to enter into it by seriously reading the whole thing?
Entirely possible.
God is a Coherent Whole, vastly beyond our understanding. However, I know He wants us to enter into this conversation piece. The Bible in its entirety is the revelation of God through history and in the person of Jesus Christ. In Matthew 11, Jesus says:
"The Father has given me all these things to do and say. This is a unique Father-Son operation, coming out of Father and Son intimacies and knowledge. No one knows the Son the way the Father does, nor the Father the way the Son does. But I'm not keeping it to myself; I'm ready to go over it line by line with anyone willing to listen."Does that describe you--willing to listen?
Tomorrow: Investigating God as a Coherent Whole.
(Description of Bible from Shane Hipps: Selling Water by the River: A Book About the Life Jesus Promises and the Religion That Gets in the Way)
