I was over half way through it, when I realized that I just wasn’t “getting it.” So....I went back to the beginning, and started all over again from square one.
The search for truth takes persistence...
Which IMO far outshines talent or brains..
Same thing happened to me with the Bible...
I read it and re-read it THEN.. I admitted to myself.. I wasn’t getting it..
Instead of throwing it the pile in my book trash corner..
I did a reassesment of my motives and agenda..
And tried to read it in the “spirit” it was given..
As some writers saw things beyond, their(the) situation..
Whether bible lore, spiritual fairy tales or actual history..
it was indeed their opinions.. whoever “they” were..
Whether true or fancy it told a story.. with multiple stories..
Stories told that reached for truth.. stretched for answers, called out to grasping for a base..
Cause every agenda has a base.. for motives..
Only then did I see the Bible could stretch me, beyond where I could reach..
Only thing then was I willing to be stretched..
Reminds me of a verse of scripture..
” After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things “.....
And Oh! My.. the things I have been shown..
When the “coming up hither stops”.. the stretching stops..
Thank you ever so much, dearest brother in Christ, for your heartfelt testimony! I see matters that way, too.
May God ever bless you! (And me.)
Thank you so much for sharing your testimony, dear hosepipe!