THE BIBLE: MY VERY OWN BOOK
John 14: 23-27
John 14: 23-27
…Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching
John 14: 23
Gabriela Mistral was born in Chile in 1889. A teacher by profession, she eventually became one of the most valued poets in her country. Among her memoirs there is an essay which she titled: “My Very Own Book” is a book which at any time and at any hour is powerful and strong; a companion which has shown me the immense beauty, the simple candor, the terrible truth, through brief passages. Your nakedness frightens hypocrites and your purity is hated by libertines. I love every part of you, even the fool in the parables.
Just think about all of the years we have invested reading pages of little content, while “My Very Own Book” remained asleep. When we recall how sometimes we used the Bible as an excuse to promote our own ideas, which were neither always true nor convincing, we feel the need to repent.
How much good we could do for others if we drew them towards the “Book of My Own”: the word of God!
Prayer: Thank you, God, for the Bible: grant that your Word become “the Book of Our Own”; our daily bread. Amen.
Translated by:
Elisa Menocal, M.A.
Visiting Professor of English
Evangelical Theological Seminary
Matanzas, Cuba
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Elisa Menocal is a member of the Ardmore Presbyterian Church, sent to the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cuba. She is spending the year there teaching English and translating for the school.
