At the recommendation of my friend Michael Daily, I have been reading John Piper's book, Reading the Bible Supernaturally. This is certainly in the Great Tradition in that Jesus Christ and the glory of God is everything to Piper. There is a link below to the Desiring God website, and by the way, you can download this book for free - how refreshing, what a servant's heart for others to know Christ.
Today I was captured by what is below, and I think I will introduce it to my congregation. It is worth meditating upon, knowing, sharing, and practicing. Who knows, the Holy Spirit may use these words to help deliver us from our narcissistic way of reading the Bible and attempting to force the Word of God to submit to us.
"Our ultimate goal in reading the Bible is that God’s infinite worth and beauty would be exalted in the everlasting, white-hot worship of the blood-bought bride of Christ from every people, language, tribe, and nation. This implies:
1. that the infinite worth and beauty of God are the ultimate value and excellence of the universe;
2. that the supremely authentic and intense worship of God’s worth and beauty is the ultimate aim of all his work and word;
3. that we should always read his word in order to see this supreme worth and beauty;
4. that we should aim in all our seeing to savor his excellence above all things;
5. that we should aim to be transformed by this seeing and savoring into the likeness of his beauty,
6. so that more and more people would be drawn into the worshiping family of God until the bride of Christ— across all centuries and cultures— is complete in number and beauty." John Piper.
https://www.desiringgod.org/books/all
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