You've been showing up.
Every day. Reading the chapters.
Checking the boxes. And you still
close your Bible empty.
That's not a discipline problem.
That's a target problem.
Nobody told you this — the Bible was
never the destination. It was always
the road. Every verse, every chapter,
every page is a finger pointed at
something. And most of us have spent
years studying the finger without ever
looking at what it's pointing to.
Jesus said it himself. John 5:39-40 —
he looked at the most scripture-devoted
people alive. Men who had the Torah
memorized. Men who never missed a day.
And he said: you've searched the
scriptures and missed Me entirely.
Not a rebuke about laziness.
A rebuke about target.
The Pharisees weren't evil men. They
thought they were serving God. Faithful
by every external measure. But they
were so locked into the text that they
couldn't recognize the Person the text
was about when He stood right in front
of them.
I know this trap. I grew up in church
my entire life and didn't know Christ.
Didn't know what it meant to actually
encounter Him through the scriptures.
I was reading. Just pointed at the
wrong thing the whole time.
When Isaiah walked into the throne room
in Isaiah 6 — the seraphim crying Holy,
the train of His robe filling the temple —
Isaiah didn't walk out with better notes.
He walked out undone. Then rebuilt.
Then sent.
That's what the Word is supposed to
do to you. Not inform you.
Undo you. Then send you.
So the next time you open your Bible —
don't open it to get something.
Open it to meet Someone.
He's already there.
He's been there every single time.
The emptiness wasn't His absence.
It was you arriving at the meeting
and reading the agenda
instead of looking up.
Point your heart toward Christ.
He'll do the rest.
— Mark
Seraph Ministry
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