It’s something I often unconsciously tell myself when it comes to just about anything I’m sure I know reasonably well: for example, a news story I’m hearing for the fourth time. I already know that. The very next step is to move on to something more compelling ASAP.
But it’s always the wrong thing to say when it comes to Scripture.
Especially when you’ve been around the Bible for decades, the risk of mentally tuning out as soon as you run across a familiar verse or passage is so natural and all too easy. I have to remind myself often to resist this impulse for this simple reason: The Word will always be a well that is deeper than I can ever hope to fully fathom.
How many times have you been stunned when a gifted pastor or teacher pulls seventeen things out of a passage that you never saw before?
Charles Spurgeon said it so well that I’ve never forgotten the way he put it:
“Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.”
What less would anyone expect when we’re dealing with a book that is the self-revelation of an infinite God? But you already knew that… : )
