The Journey

Toddlers are unpredictable. One day they love the food you make and the next they refuse it- and keep refusing it every day after that. As annoying as this trait is, I find myself begrudgingly admitting that I can identify all too well with this attitude. It's amazing how, even as adults, we can find ourselves going from loving something that is good for us to hating it. Whether it's exercise, healthy food, or someone's personality, we all walk away from things that are good. I have noticed myself doing this with the Bible. Deep down I find myself yearning for it, but there's also a part of me that finds the more I get into it, the more I want to pull back. It's frustrating. And annoying. It makes me want to pull out my hair. It turns something that should be a joy into a fight. A fight that I don't always win. I think I know why, though. Hebrews 4:12-13 says: For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as...

It seems like today the whole world is obsessed with one thing: communication. We now have Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, YouTube, Blogger... and probably a hundred other means of communicating including cell phones and the Post Office. So why is it that with all that we still cannot answer the one question that bugs us the most: How does God communicate with us? So does he tap us on the shoulder and whisper in our ear? Write letters in the air? Strike us with proverbial revelation lightning? How? Before we answer this question, we need a little bit of history. At the beginning of the Old Testament, Adam and Eve had direct, audible, one-on-one discussions with God. But after sin, that ended abruptly. Then people had only one way and one way only to hear from God- prophecy. Sure, they could pray to Him, but the only way He talked back was through the voice of another. Some of the most famous Super-Star prophets were probably Noah, Moses, Daniel, and Isaiah. There...