interiorwork: reading the bible
Read the Bible. To flourish as the earth shakes.
We live in extraordinary times. When more things drive us apart than bring us together. In fact, words most of all. So why the Bible?
interiorwork is launched to promote reading the Bible because it is a mighty text that knows about earth shaking. A book that has surely divided us. But equally, a book filled with the power to bring us together.
what is required of us in the Bible
We are lead to believe that God requires of us prayer, adoration, and obedience but in fact, the Bible tells us different. Instead we are asked to do simpler things. Things that are of the nature of humanity. Actions that make up the simplest of lives. And actions that God does also. God in the most extravagant of definitions. In fact, extravagant enough to hold everyone’s image of God at this very moment.
Yes, you can read plenty in the Bible about prayer and adoration and obedience but they are not there in the beginning. While these simple actions are.
- see:hear
- speak:tell
- give:heal
- go:turn
- know:make
The promise is that if we can grasp the sacred nature of the world and all in it and honor that in our simple human actions, all will live abundantly. And that is why it is important for you to read the Bible.
“And so when we examine a nest, we place ourselves at the origin of confidence in the world, we receive a beginning of confidence, an urge toward cosmic confidence.” Gaston Bachelard