I have read many books in my many years.

When I was young and living at home I read a good bit.
Whenever we traveled I had a book with me. Now, it was not always Dostoyevsky, but it was not always Sports Illustrated either.
In my college days I read for classes in Literature. I read The Classics, both English and American.

Later on I read simply to learn and also for enjoyment. I determined in Graduate School that I would read every afternoon for at least 90 minutes.

When you read a good or great book… you probably remember a great deal about it.

Have you ever gone back and read a great book again?

I have read
LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL three times. It has never meant as much as it meant to me when I was a 20 year old college student wondering what life was going to be like and what it held for me.

At that time, at that age …
that book meant more and spoke to me more than any novel and any book ever had.

Some people would never read a book twice.

How do you feel about reading books in The Bible…??

If you have read The Gospel of JOHN , would you say….
“I have already read that book,
I don’t have to read it again”…???

If you have read PROVERBS….
would you read it again???

I have heard long-time church-goers say …”I have heard that before, I have already read that…. I got that.”

In my mind, that attitude is a limited outlook of an unfathomable opportunity.
There are some books I read with a pen in my hand … because I know there will be memorable phrases.

My copy of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steven Jobs…is
half underlined because of the memorable words and comments of Jobs, Gates, Jonathan Ivie and a few others.

I encourage you to read The Scriptures with a pen in your hand.

There are memorable phrases.

I have read Psalms, Proverbs,
The Gospel of John, James,
Paul’s epistles….
at different times and at different ages in my life.

These books and other Scripture hold current application at whatever time I have read them.

LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL was most applicable and held the most meaning to me when I was on the cusp of adulthood.

Scripture holds applicability and
meaning for each and every moment and stage of life….
because we are consistently on the cusp of eternity.
Novels are written by man’s hand guided by man’s heart and mind about man’s limited experiences.

Scripture was written by man’s hand guided by The Almighty God about God’s Unlimited Plan for and Eternal Role in man’s experiences.

Man’s hand can write about a life and the events contained within that limited existence.

God’s Guidance directed man’s hand to write about Creation, the life of a nation,  Christ’s Walk on the earth, time splitting eternal events, angels doing battle, fulfilled prophecies,
and the unlimited forecast of the eternal life that will be realized by everyone.

If one has any sense of the spiritual
significance of God speaking to man and desiring communion with His created beings…..
then the re-reading of His Word to us should never be shunned because of a previous exercise.
I have not heard my fathers voice in 33 years.

I can remember his words and can read them.

I have reread them.

They hold great meaning because they are his words…but they are not everyday applicable and directive.
I can say that I have already read
LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL…
and that
I don’t need to read that book again.

Scripture speaks to us today as it did to the believers in Corinth, Ephesus and Thessolonica when Paul’s letters were read to them.

Because It is given to the writers by an eternal and omnipresent Spirit…. Scripture holds eternal and ever-current Truth.

In your life,
I hope there is always a need and desire to read that Book again.