Deep & Wide

It's the song we sang all the time when I was little. We'd start off class with song & prayer, then go to the Bible story. We'd talk about Jonah, or Noah, or Jesus. But now I'm looking for something deeper.



WRONG.

I think many of us often fall into this "seeking something deeper" mindset. I get caught up in it all the time. Sometimes I feel like I can't bear to hear another retelling of the same stories, the same parables, the same prophecies, and the same miracles. But that's just it. The Bible is deep stuff. It started 6000 years ago and it still hasn't gotten old. There's always more to get out of it & new things to see. Particularly the cross.

We can't get tired of the cross. We can't get tired of the suffering sacrifice of Christ. We can't overlook the gospel because we're looking for something deeper and more profound than what we're used to hearing or reading. But there's nothing deeper than the cross. There's nothing more profound than God sending his son in human form so that he may be the living Word of God and suffer and die in our place so that we don't have to ever experience the separation from God that he experienced.

God's Word is deeper and wider than anything we could ever imagine. Don't give up on it and look for incredible wisdom in the works of man. Don't stop reading it because you think you've gotten everything out of it that you can. What the Bible offers is greater than anything man can think of or anything that man could ever want. So, when we get stuck looking for something deeper, maybe we're just stuck looking in the shallow.

I John 5:9

"If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son."