Posted on 12/28/2022 6:08:35 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6
Good evening Dan
Lots of good art and impossible to pick a favorite
I love the parable of the sower.
It speaks to our work, planting seeds.
It also speaks about the four soil types. Thankfully we were CHOSEN to be fertile soil that we may host the Word in our hearts.
One of my favorite translations of a soil verse is from the original Living Bible (circa 1977)
Ephesians 3: 16 – 19
That out of His glorious, unlimited resources He will give you the mighty inner strengthening of His Holy Spirit, and I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your heart, living within you as you trust in Him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love; and may you be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high His love really is; and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is so great that you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it. And so at last you will be filled up with God Himself.
When I read this translation, I visualize a small acorn that has grown into a mighty oak.
blessings to you
K
First thing on Monday I visited a Christian bookstore I had seen. I told my situation to the manager and he suggested that I buy a Living Bible for its easier reading.
I began devouring it, reading for many hours daily. I couldn't put it down! I set a goal of finishing the OT by Christmas, but I finished both testaments by Thanksgiving--seven weeks.
I've switched from that paraphrase to translations, and I've slowed down, but I've never stopped.
“... a small acorn that has grown into a mighty oak.”
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SisterK, good post indeed; may we all grow in that way.
Great Story Dan.
And almighty God, whose Spirit called you out, who walks among the stars, would give us His Word to guide us... remarkable and impossible to comprehend.
I forgot about the Living Bible until I began letter writing for women’s prison ministry and needed the most simple translation. Some folks do not like this translation, but I love it.
I am ever so grateful for the man who translated the Living Bible because for a long time, King James was most available and many of us just cannot read the old English. I have worn out a few NKJ and now I am back to the paraphrased.
You had a very wise boss in 1977.
His boss is my mother in the faith. That's how God works.
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