Hey there...

He is an interesting exert from a fiction book that I am currently reading:

'What is the book?'

'It is the history of a people long dead, and it is the Word of God through the ages.'

'Does it give you peace, Shannow?'

'No, it torments me.'

'Does it give you power?'

'No, it weakens me.'

'Then why do you read it?'

'Because without it there is nothing but a meaningless existence of pain and sorrow, ending in death.  For what would we strive?'

This is from a fiction book by David Gemmell called Wolf in Shadow.

I find this interesting and it speaks to me on a deep level.  Sometimes we want the bible to give us strength, power and all of the answers but more often than not it doesn't.  It teaches us to love and struggle with difficult issues, and pray when we can't make any sense of things around us.  It teaches us to give away power, to offer ourselves as a sacrifice, it takes away our ability to do what we know and teaches us to follow his ways and not ours, to trust rather than try and work things out ourselves.  It challenges us to love when it is near impossible, and confronts us on our wrongs and short comings - it sometimes does not give peace but does torment us.

Peace and Love