The best way to view a globe of the Earth is to spin it and turn it and look at it from all the different angles.
You won't learn much about the geography and topography of China if you are focused on the North American continent. Moreover, your broader understanding of how the different geographies relate to each other is much more accurately understood with a globe rather than a map on a flat piece of paper.
The Scriptures at times have become so familiar to me that I can read them and they teach me nothing. They lull me to sleep.
Do the Scriptures lack life and truth? Or is the problem more with me? Since "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", I'd argue the problem is with me.
Familiarity breeds contempt. As we study the Scriptures, we should take great pains to not allow them to become so familiar that we become numb to the voice of God calling out to us through the letters on the page. Fight the familiarity syndrome.
One good way to go about this is to read the Scriptures and study them from a different angle. Read someone else's thoughts about familiar passages. This often brings new light to the words and new life and meaning to our souls.
Study the roles of the characters in your chosen passage from the point of view of another culture. This takes some extra work to develop that point of view. However, when done properly, studying a passage through the eyes of a different culture allows us to contemplate familiar passages in new and fresh ways.
Be creative. The word of God is living and active.
Spin the globe and look at passages from a different point of view--a different angle. When we do this, familiar Scriptures become beautiful jewels over which we can marvel from any vantage point.
Creative study can revive our perception of the Word and bring greater light and Life into our lives.
You won't learn much about the geography and topography of China if you are focused on the North American continent. Moreover, your broader understanding of how the different geographies relate to each other is much more accurately understood with a globe rather than a map on a flat piece of paper.
The Scriptures at times have become so familiar to me that I can read them and they teach me nothing. They lull me to sleep.
Do the Scriptures lack life and truth? Or is the problem more with me? Since "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", I'd argue the problem is with me.
Familiarity breeds contempt. As we study the Scriptures, we should take great pains to not allow them to become so familiar that we become numb to the voice of God calling out to us through the letters on the page. Fight the familiarity syndrome.
One good way to go about this is to read the Scriptures and study them from a different angle. Read someone else's thoughts about familiar passages. This often brings new light to the words and new life and meaning to our souls.
Study the roles of the characters in your chosen passage from the point of view of another culture. This takes some extra work to develop that point of view. However, when done properly, studying a passage through the eyes of a different culture allows us to contemplate familiar passages in new and fresh ways.
Be creative. The word of God is living and active.
Spin the globe and look at passages from a different point of view--a different angle. When we do this, familiar Scriptures become beautiful jewels over which we can marvel from any vantage point.
Creative study can revive our perception of the Word and bring greater light and Life into our lives.
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