The Word with Friends

So I was pretty psyched last night because I just started this book and already I got to put it to use. Billy called me yesterday so we could talk about a game plan for the evening. He's had the little lady by himself all week and between that and work he's had little time to focus on the devo. So we chatted and I remembered a game that I had read about that seemed like a lot of fun. It was called human scrabble and each kid gets a letter and they have to go around and form words among themselves. That seemed like a blast so we decided on that and some Tim Hawkins comedy (If you haven't seen him he's hilarious).

As I was sitting down to write down the game logistics and rules, a moment of inspiration hit me that was clearly from God. I decided to call the evening "Words with Friends Live" and then I made the connection between words and The Word. I started thinking about how random human language is. Its just a bunch of random characters thrown together to make some sort of sense. I thought about the design of language and how words can be extremely powerful. That lead me to contemplating the fact that God designed the Bible and put the words in just the right order that it would change lives. Then I remembered something I had read just the previous day in the book:

...The best way I can put it is that, before the change, I pored over the bible, questioning and analyzing it. But after the change it was as if the Bible, or maybe Someone through the Bible, began poring over me, questioning and analyzing me...

I went on to talk about the professor of philosophy who, through his own search for meaning, serendipitously stumbled on the Bible and had this to say:

“Lo and behold, as I looked through them [the Gospels] the One who spoke and acted in them became aliveto me... This is the book that would understand me.”

I love that because 1) I love the phrase "Lo and behold" and 2) because it speaks so perfectly to how the Bible, the Word of God can speak to our lives and know us so intimately.

Lovin the book so far!