I have two that change my life… prompted by two different conditions.
When I first got into biblical research (which was a while and half ago) on occasions I would still partake of the devils lettuce.
One night I got ripped and started reading the Word….and this was the scripture.
Eph 3:5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
To my toasted amazement…. no person who had ever read the Word …ever saw the word ~
IT.~ …. That’s correct…. I had discovered the word
IT and I spent a couple of hours rolling that in my newly enlightened brain ….before I started calling a few close believers in the fellowship and expounding on the word. ….. A couple of them engaged me in convo, but the others are like …..“are you ok, Tom” ….
WHAT ….don’t you see it? ….It says ~
IT ~
Fast forward to the next morning ….. I wake up, ready to let the world know my discovery of …
IT.
As I read through the scripture and got to the word that was going to alter biblical history …. ......it read only →
it.
Of course the word “
it” does encompass the mystery which is absolutely paramount to us in this day and age of grace …..But where I was going with the previous night … no man has ever ventured before….nor should they.
I don’t know what that was dusted with but the moral of the story is (there are a few) but ….“no read with weed” is primary.
The other scripture:
When I first read Ephesians and came across
Eph 2:7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
This blew my mind… Not just what the words communicate ….but what they mean from Gods heart (metaphorically speaking) to us. Not just that He is going to show us the exceeding riches of His grace in Kindness toward us …. But what does it mean from Gods standard. We can think in terms of natural man standards, but I don’t know if I can grasp what exceeding riches or kindness is …that comes from God. And He is going to do that for the ….ages …. ages ….. ages …. to come ….for us.
There is nothing I could do that would earn that ….that is GRACE.