Are there passages that continually bear fruit for you? Verses that seem to stop you each time you read them? Words that challenge you at a different level each time that you encounter them in His Book? There are several that do that for me. Psalm 119 (here @ Bible Gateway) continues to draw me back to its 22 octets. 2 Peter (here @ Bible Gateway), 2 Timothy (here @ Bible Gateway), Colossians (here @ Bible Gateway)… probably should stop. My kids say that I will be drawn to all of it…
Exodus 33:13 (here @ Bible Gateway) is a passage that stops me just about every time I read it. Consider it for a minute.
What strikes you about that passage? For me, it reminds me that if I am interested in knowing the Lord better, I am completely dependent on His graciously granting that knowledge to me. I cannot in any way, shape, or form attain more knowledge of Him unless He reveals it to me.
That reality, that notion, is not just in Exodus 33:13 (here @ Bible Gateway), no, it permeates one of the passages I listed above, Psalm 119 (here @ Bible Gateway). Read through Psalm 119 (here @ Bible Gateway), note the number of times that David asks the Lord to teach him, or declares his dependence on the Lord to know Him and, or to learn of or obey Him.
As I have mentioned before, it has changed my perspective and the way that I pray.
By the way the other places I have written about Exodus 33:13 (here @ Bible Gateway) are here and here.
What strikes you about that passage? For me, it reminds me that if I am interested in knowing the Lord better, I am completely dependent on His graciously granting that knowledge to me. I cannot in any way, shape, or form attain more knowledge of Him unless He reveals it to me.
That reality, that notion, is not just in Exodus 33:13 (here @ Bible Gateway), no, it permeates one of the passages I listed above, Psalm 119 (here @ Bible Gateway). Read through Psalm 119 (here @ Bible Gateway), note the number of times that David asks the Lord to teach him, or declares his dependence on the Lord to know Him and, or to learn of or obey Him.
As I have mentioned before, it has changed my perspective and the way that I pray.
By the way the other places I have written about Exodus 33:13 (here @ Bible Gateway) are here and here.
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