“The Bible does not show us story after story of ‘heroes of the faith’ who go from strength to strength. Instead we get a series of narratives containing figures who are usually not the people the world would expect to be spiritual paragons and leaders. The Bible is not primarily a series of stories with a moral, though there are plenty of practical lessons. Rather, it is a record of God’s intervening grace in the lives of people who don’t seek it, who don’t deserve it, who continually resist it, and who don’t appreciate it after they have been saved by it.”
—Tim Keller
My prayer this week: Thank you, Lord, for leading the writers of the Bible to record stories of your magnificent grace in the lives of your servants. What an encouragement to me! I am human, unable to obtain perfection, and yet through you I possess great strength. Draw me to your Word again and again, Father, so I might be changed by who you are.
