"Filet Mignon........................."

There were nearly twenty of us in the Wednesday evening Bible study. Next week we will start a new series of ten classes that will utilize an A.W. Tozer work “Life in the Spirit” for a path that we intend to follow, the Bible, itself, remaining the one foundational truth in so far as any and all discussion generated. Tonight, though, we went to the ninth chapter of Hebrews as a springboard and examined what it really means to be “saved by the blood”. That’s “deep water” and, for a few minutes, I really thought perhaps we would do no more than simply review the subject, quoting Scripture without getting into the meat of things. People, after all, only know what they have been served down through the years; and, mostly, believers possess but a collection of phrases, terminology they can quote, but cannot give meaningful definition to it. As it turned out, on this occasion, our teacher issued “scuba gear” and down we went. Did we walk out later with the question conquered? No; but at least we were better equipped for the journey. Here at home, then, toward the end of our first reading assignment, I smiled when the above author inquired as to how many truths have gotten “snowed under”, so many within the faith trusting in them, but having received no real educational substance concerning them. Truth, of course, will always be bigger than any of us; yet the One who proclaimed Himself to embody such word did command us to pick up our cross and pursue……