"Do not expect always to get an emotional charge or a feeling of quiet peace when you read the Bible. By the grace of God you may expect that to be a frequent experience, but often you will get no emotional response at all. Let the Word break over your heart and mind again and again as the years go by, and imperceptibly there will come great changes in your attitude and outlook and conduct. You will probably be the last to recognize these... Go on reading it until you can read no longer, and then you will not need the Bible any more, because when your eyes close for the last time in death, and never again read the Word of God in Scripture you will open them to the Word of God in the flesh, that same Jesus of the Bible whom you have known for so long, standing before you to take you for ever to His eternal home."
- Geoffrey Thomas, Reading the Bible
When my father-in-law decided to move after his retirement, he invited us to his home to take a few pieces of furniture he wanted us to have.
“Don’t bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.”
My friend Julie and I were eating at a Chinese restaurant.