I
have a tendency to leave books scattered around the house wherever I
happen to be reading them. A couple of days ago I had left one of my
bibles on the couch, and my husband took a couple of cute pictures of
our dog Geisha leaning against it. And he found part of the cuteness in
the fact that it was the “good book” rather than some random book that I
had left there, as if Geisha had some idea what book she was leaning
against.But of course a dog cannot understand what a bible really is,
beyond a particular copy having a nice feeling cover.
We
can know what an incredible gift the bible is. This treasure of God
revealing himself to man. This chance we have to read about His deeds
and to see parts of His character. But I think sometimes we focus so
much on the presence of the divine manifest in this knowledge that we
forget this is also a book. I've been thinking this week about being
interested in the people and times that God was interested in. Noting
the human element that God was engaging with and that he chose to convey
his word through, reminds me to come to the Bible with all of my mind,
ready for God to engage my humanness.
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