Instruction from your lips is better for me than thousands of gold and silver pieces. —Psalm 119:72
Think for a moment about the words in Scripture you consider most beautiful: Grace. Mercy. Repentance. Forgiveness. Kindness. Savior.
Beautiful they are—the way they roll off your tongue, bind wounds in your heart, and call you to reconciliation. Now think of this: they are just as lovely in every tribe and tongue and nation in the kingdom of God. He is so good, our God of wonder, our God of words. As believers, we have exclusive access to the most exhaustive collection of shimmering words in the universe: the very words of God Himself.
“What is wonderful about great literature,” wrote novelist E. M. Forster, “is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.”1 As we read the shimmering words of the greatest work of literature of all time, may that be our aim and our unalterable outcome: to become like Him—our Author, our Savior, our God.
1 E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1965), 83.
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“Words that Shimmer!” (Laura Elliott, ReviveOurHearts.com/blog)
Scripture taken from The CSB
Make it Personal
How are the words of your Lord and Savior changing you as you read? What passages draw you to His glory?