The Bible - I
We are people of the Book. So, for the week of October 20, we are having a quote concerning the Bible.
Eugene Peterson
Eat This Book
"I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel; it was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach was made bitter" (Rev. 10:10 - The Revelation of St. John)
....sooner or later we find that not everything is to our liking in this book. It starts out sweet to our taste; and then we find that it doesn’t sit well with us at all; it becomes bitter in our stomachs. Finding ourselves in this book is most pleasant, flattering even; and then we find that the book is not written to flatter us, but to involve us in a reality, God’s reality, that doesn’t cater to our fantasies of ourselves. (63-64)
Togther in Christ,
Stephen
