Life isn't like that though, life has ambiguity, discovery, mystery.

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We're not supposed to understand everything, but we should understand why we're here.
We're not supposed to know everything, but we should know fulfilment, satisfaction, and joy.

That's one of the reasons I love the Bible. People might say it has all the answers, but it doesn't. What it does have are all the answers we need.

When I preached on 1 Peter 4:12-19 a few weeks ago it probably raised more questions than it answered, but I'm ok with that...
as long as I answer the questions that really matter.

Have a listen and see for yourself:


Sometimes,
most of the time,
all of the time...
you have to embrace the mystery and run with what you know.

Life has more questions than answers,
seek the answers that matter and enjoy the freedom of not knowing everything.

I want to be excited by God's Word and I want to share it with others. 
I can't do this if I'm not reading it but I find it just as hard if I'm doing it to tick off a duty.

My way won't work for most of you. And your way – I have found – usually doesn't work for me.

If you can read your Bible every day, please do, and keep telling me to, because I want to. But don't judge me or make me feel guilty or let me not be able to be open with you because it's something I don't do.
I want a real relationship with God, not to tick off a list.
I want to connect with God, not have some words go in and out.

I admire my friend who wakes at 5:15 each morning to spend 30 minutes getting ready and 30 minutes with God before work... but I can't do that. And I'm not her. So let me be me and connect with God and allow my relationship with him to be really real and ask me what he's saying to me. Because he's still talking. And the Bible is still important. It just might look different to me than it does to you.

So here's some freedom: find a way that works for you to connect with God. 
If you read the Bible every day and get through the Bible in a year, I respect you, thank you and need you in my life.
If you have a Bible verse on your mirror and read that each day, I respect you, thank you and need you in my life.
If you study the Bible with commentaries and different versions and the original text, I respect you, thank you and need you in my life.
If you sing in the shower and you're real with Jesus, I respect you, thank you and need you in my life.
Don't allow this freedom to let you disconnect, but let it help you dig in.

Let's be real with God. Let's embrace the freedom he offers and remove the guilt we feel.