“SHARING A PASSION FOR READING,” is the heading of the article. It is the story about a book lover, who is especially fond of books for kids and keeps herself fulfilled by supporting others, who need encouragement to try writing or illustrating. (The Northern Advocate, Tuesday, August 14, 2012)
Articles about reading and books are of great interest to me, because reading is one of my hobbies and I have a particular passion for reading the BIBLE.
Why do I have a passion for reading the BIBLE? I love to tell you why, and will do it as plainly and simply as I can.
I must tell you about two experiences, spiritual experiences, actually miracles. I looked up THE COLLINS CONCISE DICTIONARY and there I read that a miracle is “an event contrary to the laws of nature and attributed to a supernatural cause.” There I read also that a miracle is “any amazing or wonderful event.”
THE FIRST MIRACLE
Is it easy to talk about and explain miracles? I don’t think so.
But the first miracle happened in Germany many years ago, when I was eighteen years old.
Until a certain day of 1958 the BIBLE was for me like any other book on the book shelf. But that changed on that particular day, and the BIBLE was no longer like any other book on the book shelf.
Slowly, very slowly, I began to understand, what the Bible was all about! I began to grow spiritually.
On that day in the year of 1958 I believed on the Lord Jesus Christ and I was conscious of peace and happiness.
THE SECOND MIRACLE
The second miracle took place many many years later in Kaikohe in New Zealand.
Until then I was not really satisfied with my reading of the BIBLE. Let me just say my reading of the BIBLE was not good enough. And I knew it. And I wanted to read the BIBLE systematically, it was my desire to read the BIBLE like any other book, from cover to cover.
And then it happened, all of a sudden I was able to read the Bible from cover to cover, from Genesis to Revelation. If I remember correctly, and I think I do, when that happened I read the BIBLE twice from cover to cover in one year. And when I say I read the BIBLE from cover to cover, I mean I read every word!
Yes, miracles are still happening today. They happened to me. Please, tell me if they happened also in your life.
“SHARING A PASSION FOR READING,” is the heading of the article. It is the story about a book lover, who is especially fond of books for kids and keeps herself fulfilled by supporting others, who need encouragement to try writing or illustrating. (The Northern Advocate, Tuesday, August 14, 2012)