Biblical literacy does not dispel all confusion and mystery from your life because while God reveals his will for you in the Bible, he does not reveal all the things he will do in your life for your good and his glory. God surprises you.

We were created to be part of something so big, so glorious, so far beyond the ordinary that it would totally change the way we approach every ordinary thing in our lives.

Think of how strange the colours and sights of the world would be for a blind man abruptly made to see or a man deaf from birth hearing the playing of a hundred flutes

The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being.

Our experiences of God matter—those sacred moments that defy the very rational capabilities we are so keen to rely on.

Now Ornan was threshing wheat when he turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.

No bird of prey knows that path; no falcon’s eye has seen it.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.

Your eyes will see the King in His beauty and behold a land that stretches afar.

You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not acknowledge them? From now on I will tell you of new things, hidden things unknown to you.

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.