Many times we read the Bible simply as a history lesson of the past or looking to find hints to the mysteries of the future. While scripture gives us things, to limit our understanding to these two areas creates an incomplete picture.
Karl Barth not only writes of the Word of God as something that is written and preached, but revealed.
This revelation is not the stuff of fear inducing cataclysmic events—it is the revelation of Jesus Christ: “God with us,” “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.”
This gift of revelation occurs by the free, unmerited gift of God’s grace and in any time and way that God desires.
Barth writes, “The Christ who comes again is no other than the Christ who has come, but this Christ as the One who now comes also to us.”
Come Lord Jesus, be our guest!
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