I am in my office studying.
Working on the life of Abraham.
Within easy grasp I have…
· Multiple Bible software programs on the computer
· Commentaries stacked up on the shelves
· Hebrew language tools
· Encyclopedic works on the archeology and history of the Ancient Near East
· Technical works on the interpretation and application of Old Testament narratives (at least eight of them I had to read for a class last year)
And what am I reading?
I am looking at some handwritten notes that I made two months ago.
They are on a spiral bound page which I ripped out of a music notebook (don’t know if it was Sam’s piano lessons or Carly’s violin lessons).
I grabbed this paper some early morning in August when I was reading through Genesis so that I could write down some things I noticed in the text.
There will be a time to crack those study tools open. They have all been thumbed through plenty of times.
But what hits me as a look over this note page I purloined early one morning… is that I don’t really need all of them. I need the Spirit of God to open the eyes of my heart to the Word of God.
This is simply to say that I love reading the Bible.
I guess the educational theory is that my time in all of the other resources will make my observations on the ripped out spiral page better. I guess I hope so. All I know for sure is that I love reading the Bible. The more repeated my readings become the greater insights and observations they yield.
Should I go ahead and end by stating the obvious?
The Spirit of God is my favorite author.
The Bible is the best book in my library.