Thursday Thoughts

This is a quote from Geoffrey Thomas that I found written in my husband's Bible:
"Do not expect to master the Bible in a day, or a month, or a year. Rather expect often to be puzzled by its contents. It is not all equally clear. Great men of God often feel like absolute novices when they read the Word. The Apostle Peter said that there were some things hard to understand in the Epistles of Paul. I'm glad he wrote those words because have felt that often. Let the Word break over your heart and mind again and again as the years go by, and imperceptibly there will come great changes in your attitude and outlook and conduct. You will probably be the last to recognize these. Often you will feel very, very small, because increasingly the God of the Bible will become to you wonderfully great. So, go on reading it until you can read it no longer, and then you will not need the Bible anymore, because when your eyes close for the last time in death, and never again read the Word of God in Scripture you will open them to the Word of God in the Flesh, the same Jesus of the Bible whom you have known for so long, standing before you to take you forever to His eternal home."