Recently, I was thinking about the great treasure that the Scriptures are to us, but how often they seem less like a treasure and more like a dead weight we carry around.
My junior year of college I went to Honduras with a group of students to help a local village install a gravity-fed water system in the mountains. My wife, Kelly, who I was dating at the time, sent me a packet with love letters for each day of the trip. I couldn’t wait to open each letter to see what Kelly had written, drawn or painted for me.
In an unfamiliar place with a language I didn’t speak very well, Kelly’s letters made my day. Not only did I anticipate them each morning, but reading them made me feel connected to her even though we were separated by such a great geographical distance.
Kelly’s love letters made me think about the Scriptures. It’s not an original idea with me, but it strikes me that the Scriptures are really God’s love letter to us – a people sojourning in an unfamiliar land. How often do we think of the Scriptures in that way? What a joy it is to ponder the treasure that we have from God – the Living God who truly speaks to us – as He speaks His word to us in the Scripture.
Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long (Psalm 119:97).
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