[Blog Author's Note: I do not know if my father hit any more milestone's after he wrote this, but I know he hit a big milestone when he passed through those gates.]
November 30, 2000
So what is better? ...to be approved by what the letter of the law says, or to be approved by the one who gave that law? And what is better? ...to know the gospel, or to understand the reasoning behind it? Why did God come up with the gospel? How many differing problems did God solve in Christ? How many facets are there in the jewel? How many colors? The scenery becomes more and more beautiful the more one travels in the Words that God gave. There is no trash here.
I remember how wonderful a milestone it was when I saw that the Bible was not a junk drawer of unrelated writings but rather a carefully crafted selection of scoop that God wanted us to know - one book, sequential, complete, related each part of it to every other part. Let me tell you that that energized my desire all the more to read it.
Another milestone that I remember... was it fifteen years ago, or twenty? I was disappointed by the thought that I was being shoved off the road by the bright young guys running past me, so to speak. I was reading, memorizing, etc. What I heard from them was that they had found a shortcut and that I had wasted my life so far. I had come to a cliff in the dark and could not even tell whether it was up or down. It was a hard time. Though I already knew the Bible to be inspired, I was greatly encouraged at that time to take a good look at the matter more closely than before. As I did, in the providence of God, the lamp of God's Word got brighter. The cliff was up, not down, and I then found myself on top of it, not on the bottom. The other's who ran past me? Their shortcut? I do not know. That was then; this is now. [Blog Author's Note: I considered taking the preceding sentence out because it confused me, and I at first thought he had confused himself. But as I read and re-read it, I began to see that it did have meaning, and he probably did mean it exactly as he wrote it; so I have left it in place.] The third milestone was at the place where God pulled back the curtain of my mind to see glories of his plans for man (including me). Though I knew before that he planned good things for those who love him, I began to see the glory that he still plans to share. C.S. Lewis said it is bigger on the inside than on the outside. I have been aghast at how big it is. Run as I can, I cannot get past this milestone. There are too many things to see, but around the corner, I can see there is another milestone even grander. Will I live long enough?
The way to go has been plainer ever since, not easier but plainer. Ever since, I have loved His Word just as much as ever, and His Words even more, for His Words are God breathed, out of His life, His mind, His heart and soul, written for and to me.
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