What’s next? The divine domino effect
ChatGPTIn the summer of 2001, I embarked on my first-ever short-term mission trip. We went to Cuba, where my faith was stretched. God's character and his ways overwhelmed me.
A few months later, I decided to try to read the Bible all the way through. During this spiritual journey, our second child was born. Soon after, I tried my hand at teaching in church.
These events were like dominos falling. Each clinked against the next like a schoolchild nudging his neighbor with a whispered "It's your turn."
I recently found a journal entry from 2004, right after I'd finished my three-year initial traipse through the Old Testament. It hits me squarely these decades later:
"As I'm beginning the New Testament, something just occurred to me. If I think there is so much wisdom, truth, knowledge and power in this Bible, if I believe it speaks to every area of life, if I believe it can cut to the heart of a man and save him, and if this book is the only one written by God himself—then why am I not studying it more deeply and seeking to become more intimately familiar with it, with all my heart and mind?"
I'm still hungry to learn and grow. Are you? No matter how many dominos have toppled in our wake, we have more to learn, new places to go.
Let's embrace the Word with full faith that it can change us. That it can strengthen us for whatever God has planned next.
In growth mode,
Tom Harper
Founder, BiblicalLeadership.com
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 | Tom Harper is publisher of BiblicalLeadership.com and executive chairman of Networld Media Group, a business-to-business publisher and event producer. He has written five books, including Servant Leader Strong: Uniting Biblical Wisdom and High-Performance Leadership (DeepWater Books, 2019) as well as the Christian business fable Through Colored Glasses and its sequel Inner Threat (DeepWater, 2022). Learn More » |
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