God's Word

"Let's see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching." Hebrews 10:24-25 - The Message

You got to love the Message. It seems that when I can't get my head wrapped around a passage in God's Word, the Message clears the cobwebs away. Not that it is my study Bible - it is not. It is more my inspiration Bible. It makes me ask questions of myself. Toni, how inventive can you be in encouraging your husband, your sister..... Toni, are you avoiding worshiping your Lord through acts of service or tithing?

Eugene Peterson has also written other fine books like Eat This Book. In that book he quotes Kafka "If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why read it?....A book must be like an ice-axe to break the frozen sea within us." (page 8)

That is what I have come to look for God's Word to do - to break something frozen within me. Regardless of the translation I am reading. It is hard to transform something frozen.

TJ