I'm sure we've all watched a movie the second time and caught something we didn't see the first time. Or listened to a song we didn't care for the first time we heard it, then couldn't take it off of repeat after we learned the words. Read a book all the way through, then months or even years later read it again and got something totally different out of it. It's funny how things change...
I have always wondered what I would do once I finished reading through the entire bible. Do you just continue to read the same stories over and over again? Doesn't it ever get old and monotonous? Once you've learned the "lesson", what more is there to learn?
It's funny how things change...now that I actually spend time reading, I understand what people mean by 'the living Word of God'. As circumstances change, as people move in and out of your life and as you grow and mature in your faith, your perspective changes. I speak from personal experience.
Through some really hard times over the last two years, I clung to scripture related to hope and comfort, getting rid of anxiety and finding strength. Now, I can read those verses and take a whole new meaning from them. I listen to songs and hear a totally different message through the lyrics. For example, the Elevation Worship song, Give Me Faith, used to speak to my heart in reference to the need for confession and repentance of sexual sin. "I may be weak, but Your spirit's strong in me. My flesh may fail, but my God you never will"...hit me in the gut and heart every time. Even though I was in the Word, going to church and getting involved, it was still something I couldn't surrender.
It's funny how things change...because of Him.
"It's okay to not be okay when you get here, it's just not okay for you stay not okay. Growing people change." ~Pastor Perry Noble, NewSpring Church
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