Understanding Through Experience

My father was pretty healthy for most of his life. Then in his seventies, he went through a series of medical problems. At one point when the physician thought he was dying, I immediately flew to Florida to see him. By the time I arrived he was doing much better. As I sat with him he confessed to me that, although he was a pastor, he’d never really had much sympathy for sick people. But now, he explained, he finally understood their pain.

In other words, his experience opened his understanding in a way that observing others couldn’t. And so it is with the Bible. You can have a Ph.D. in Biblical studies and still not understand it. I’ve heard many people say that reading the Bible meant nothing to them until they had a personal encounter with Jesus. After that, they couldn’t get enough of the Bible!

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