Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Utterly Inexhaustible!


Congratulations to the many who have finished reading the New Testament in 30 days! What a wonderful journey this has been. What a way to grow in our sopiritual disciplines. What a deposit made into our souls. What new habits we have acquired!

Now is the time to keep reading and reading. The Bible is inexhaustible.

Here is a quote from Spurgeon to encourage all of us:

“I have many an old book in my library in which there have been bookworms, and I have sometimes amused myself with tracing a worm. I do not know how he gets to the volume originally, but being there he eats his way into it. He bores a hole in a direct line, and sometimes I find that he dies before he gets halfway through the tome. Now and then a worm has eaten his way right through from one wooden cover to another; yes, and through the cover also. This was a most successful bookworm.

Few of us can eat our way quite so far. I am one of the bookworms that have not got halfway into my Bible yet; but I am eating my way as fast as I can. This one thing I have proved to myself beyond all question; I shall never, never exhaust this precious book. Much less shall I exhaust the wondrous person of my divinely-blessed Lord. He is that bread which came down from heaven. He is utterly inexhaustible.”

C. H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of the New Testament (Grand Rapids, 1950), II:365.

Here is athe celebration video of the NTin30 journey. Enjoy!