Father, Thank you for your excellent Word. Thank you, Lord, that that your Word so immensely deep, powerful, and meaningful that it causes us great effort simply to understand those truths that you consider to be of the smallest things that you have to present to us. Every time that we study your Word you show us increasingly more marvelous and incredible wonders. I do not know Lord, but it seems that often times the more that I read a passage, the greater the meaning that comes from it. One might think that it would be the other way around, but your Word is so alive and living and endless. Your Word is always abounding with instruction, truth, grace, and love. We ask you Lord that you would bless us with a greater understanding the bounty of marvelous things that you have to show us in your Word. Bless us now, Father, that we would see and understand our blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ through those things that we study your Word today.
Person In A Space Suit Waiting At The Bus Stop, Tom Leishman 2020
My dear friend,
It is hard to believe that it has been two whole months since I last posted a letter to you. When I started working on the Bible studies, I very quickly became inundated with that effort. I found that I did not have time for anything else. Virtually everything in my life has been put on the backburner. Even those daily and weekly activities (such as house cleaning and hygiene) that we all must do in order to keep ourselves fit for living have suffered because of my effort in producing these Bible Studies.
I knew long before I started work on these Bible Studies that they were going to be a very big challenge for me, but now that I am doing them, I find that it is a far greater effort than I could ever have imagined. It is somewhat humorous; because, when the idea first came to me, I was envisioning that I would simply be reading the text of the Bible to you. And nothing else! (This was before God gave me the errand to circumnavigate.) I had this idea that I would set up a blog site with the main purpose of communicating my own love to you in a way that you might come to realize the true nature of my love for you. I thought that if I did it that way, that you might understand that I genuinely never had any desires or intentions to take anything from you.
(To this very day, I am still completely perplexed as you why you ever thought that I wanted to exploit you in any way at all. How could my affections for you have been so completely misunderstood? From where, and how, did you ever arrive at such a dreadful conclusion?)
I figured that if I communicated to you in the form of blog posts (and the like) that you might see that I am honestly not seeking for nor expecting anything in return. Although, I have told you this before, but what can I do? You are trapped in a world of darkness my dearest friend! I am not able to comprehend what it is that has a hold on your heart and your mind, but this I do know. It is not of anything that is good and pure!
You say that you do no believe that God exists. You say that the Bible is fake. Oh! But my friend! You know deep in your heart that those words are only lies. You know deep in your heart that there is a God. You know that you … your very own self … you have a soul! You have a spirit! Where is that spirit of yours going to go when you pass on from this life to the next? What are you going to do when you find yourself in that boundless abyss after your body has died and been buried? What are you going to do when you stand in judgement before that very one that you claim does not exist?
Can you not understand how completely heartbroken I am over you … over your soul? I make no claim over your body or your soul. It is God that wants your soul! God gave you life. God gave you your body and your mind. All He is asking is for you to believe in Him. God has already provided the salvation for your soul. He simply asks that you believe.
