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Noticing Our (God-Repaired) Selves by HOLLY SPRINK
Sometimes I mistakenly read the Bible like a Jane Austen book. Life seems so simple in Pride and Prejudice or in Sense and Sensibility; the good people are good, the bad people are bad, and everyone knows who is who. Someone might come over from the dark side from time to time, or vice versa, but overall, things are nice and neat. The people in Jane Austen’s books have astounding selfknowledge; they seem to know whether they’re good characters or bad characters before the story begins. This is convenient because they can continue to do good or evil for the rest of their lives and fulfill their purposes in the story. No one seems conflicted about who he or she is—or who he or she is supposed to be. When I read the Bible, sometimes I catch myself thinking of its stories in a similar way. The people I read about seem to have it all together. They seem to know who they are and discern their purposes on earth as if God had inserted microchips containing this information into their brains at birth. After all, many of them had physical encounters with God or interacted with Jesus. Surely that gave them an edge in figuring out their lives and what they were doing here in the world. The thing I routinely forget as I read the Bible, however, is that these people were . . . To read more, visit www.helwys.com/lm
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