I absolutely love how “alive” the Word of God is. I have read and reread it over the course of my life, and yet the newness never ends – it continuously teaches and reproves and convicts and energizes and empowers as the Holy Spirit reveals through it. I am currently reading the gospel of John out loud with my husband and having discussions about it. I am also currently copying the gospel of Mark into a notebook and gleaning from its depths in that way. I am blown away at the life of Jesus and the things that I never grasped so fully before. I guess I never truly understood what a man of sorrows Jesus really was. Jesus was continuously blasphemed, ridiculed, lied about, and condemned. The world around Him was seriously “out to get Him”. Many people were offended by Him, that such a simple man (the son of a carpenter) could be performing miracles and aligning Himself with God. The religious leaders were constantly angry because He didn’t tow the line of religion as they thought He