I just finished my 2nd training session on how to use this website. My brain is so tired because it is a whole new language to me. Now I know words I never knew before and what they mean…like widgets and tag clouds. Some of the words I knew before, but on the computer, they have a whole different meaning…like dashboard, plugins, backbone and bookmarks. It’s not that easy to learn this computer language when your “middle-aged”, but I am determined to learn it, and as I do, it’s opening up a whole new world for me! Younger people catch on to these things so much quicker. My children love to tease me when I make a “pooh flaw” (that’s a whole ‘nother story). Then there’s the time I ended a serious email with “lol”, thinking that meant lots of love! So, I’ve come a long ways and I will keep learning.
That’s how it’s been for me in my Christian life. I thought at one time that I basically knew everything there was to know about the Bible. My parents read it to me since I was a small child, followed by years of church attendance, sunday school, bible studies and so on.
Then through incredible pain in my life, I experienced God’s grace. After this, the Bible took on a whole new meaning for me. Instead of a book of rules for me to follow and try to live up to, it became a book about God’s love for me. The same words I read before, but a whole new language! I challange you to start reading God’s Word as a love letter and learn not only a new language, but a new life!