God Still Speaks: Reading the Bible with Astonishment

Here's a good article reminding us about the nature of what we are reading when we read the scripture.

"What does this mean when we open the Bible? Simply and amazingly this: God is not silent. The words we discover in the pages of the Bible are his — all of them. What we find between those leather covers is not a loose collection of texts, jumbled together by a few ancient scribes and holy men and containing bits of wisdom and tips for self-help. They are not merely interesting snapshots of history from which we can draw life lessons or stories we might appropriate however we see fit.

On the contrary, these words are revelation, God’s address to his people by which he makes himself known and through which he calls his people to “fear [him], to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve [him] with all [their] heart and with all [their] soul, and to keep [his] commandments and statutes” (Deuteronomy 10:12–13). And he speaks to us for our good."

Do you have a reading plan for the year? It certainly isn't a requirement biblically, but sometimes plans help us be focused and disciplined as we engage in the amazing privilege of hearing from God.