[Discoveries] 09-25-07 Seeing the scriptures with new eyes 2-3 - Ephesians 3:20

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*/What can you imagine?
How big can you think?
God thinks bigger...
Do you want to ask Him for something?
Ask big because you're dealing with a big God./
Ephesians 3:20 from the /Discoveries Bible/ *

Continued from yesterday ...

Do we need another Bible translation or paraphrase? No, not exactly. But 
I do think we need to see the Bible that we have with new eyes.

That's what I'm attempting to do with the /Discoveries Bible/. I want to 
make the meaning accessible to the reader. I pray that God will take 
some things that have grown stale for some of us and breathe new life 
into them.

I don't pretend that the /Discoveries Bible/ will be a great work of 
scholarship. I recommend that you /don't/ use it to form your theology.

The other day I was working on a project for a client. He looked at it 
and didn't like it. At first I felt terrible. I like doing good work and 
I don't want my name attached to anything that isn't good. So I held all 
of this up to the Lord, and He showed me something I never really 
considered before. The Lord showed me this: I thought I was doing this 
work for my client. But that was really an illusion. In reality, I did 
the work for the Lord. He received it; He accepted it; He liked it. Now 
He was giving me a new assignment: "Go, make your client happy." The 
Lord reminded me that He is the One who establishes the work of our 
hands (Psalm 90).

So here we have it: Same situation, brand new perspective. That's what I 
want to do with the /Discoveries Bible/. Same Bible passage, brand new 
perspective.

More tomorrow ...

Be encouraged!
Dwight



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