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heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with
Him in order that we may also be glorified with Him.”

What joy there is to come together and fellowship among our
“living bible selves”, as He walks in our midst! He’s in the midst of
our humanity; our joys and trials, our flesh and blood, our feelings
and emotions and in the realness and imperfections of our selves.
This is the kind of Bible that so encourages my heart; when we can
come together sharing the living Word in our hearts with spontaneous
intermingling of His written words. It’s like His living, active,
ongoing “Bible study”. 2 Corinthians 3:2-3 “You are our letter,
written in our hearts, known and read by all men; being manifested
that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but
with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets
of human hearts.”

Isaiah 46:9 says, “Remember the former things long past, for I
am God, and there is no other; I am God and there is no One like
Me”. Yet Isaiah 43:18-19 says, “Do not call to mind the former
things, or ponder the things of the past. Behold, I will do something
new, now it will spring forth… I will make a roadway in the
wilderness”. There is a time we are to look back to remember our
past; and a time that comes for us to forget the past as the Lord does a
new thing in our lives.

When I look back on my life, I can see God’s handiwork
behind the scenes. Corrie Ten Bloom once compared it to a tapestry
that looks pretty tangled and knotted when looked at from the back
side, but once flipped over, actually is a beautiful masterpiece. I’ve
looked back on the tangled mess of my life and have seen how God
was at work preparing me to be His masterpiece in Christ Jesus.

I also look back and see that at a very early age I was aware
that there was a God; beginning, at least, with my church experience
as an 8 year old. Romans 2:19-23 “…because that which is known
about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them.
For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal