What Do You Look For When You Read the Bible?

[FatherWilliam57]

I am not so sure I would dispense with the "love letter from God" idea out of hand.  I think about the letters my wife wrote to me while I was in the Navy.  What does one do with a love letter, especially when separated from their love?  They cherish it, re-read it, study it for every nuance present.  It prompts a loving response in return.  I wish more Christians cherished the Word of God in such a way.  Oh, love that will not let me go...

Perhaps I am reading Brian's comment in too simplistic a fashion.  Then again, some may be reading more into his statement than he intended.  Just musing...

[Brian Stoffregen]

I am not so sure I would dispense with the "love letter from God" idea out of hand.  I think about the letters my wife wrote to me while I was in the Navy.  What does one do with a love letter, especially when separated from their love?  They cherish it, re-read it, study it for every nuance present.  It prompts a loving response in return.  I wish more Christians cherished the Word of God in such a way.  Oh, love that will not let me go...

Perhaps I am reading Brian's comment in too simplistic a fashion.  Then again, some may be reading more into his statement than he intended.  Just musing...

That's a pretty accurate sense of what I meant. I see the purposes of "love letters" are to (1) express the love of the sender towards the receiver and (2) win the love of the receiver for the sender. I am not thinking a sappy love, but agape that includes speaking the truth in love which may not always be received, at first, as love.