What two qualities of God do you most need to access today?

When you look in the face of Jesus right now, what do you see?

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I'm reading a commentary on Jeremiah and read this The text of Jeremiah "is powerful and compelling, so passionate and uncompromising in its anguish and hope, that it requires we submit our experience to it and thereby reenter our experience on new terms, namely the terms of the text. The text does not need to be applied to our situation. Rather, our situation needs to be submitted to the text for a fresh discernment. It is our situation not the text that requires new interpretation." Submitting our experience to Scripture rather than making an application - wow! I've been so guilty of trying to make Scripture fit my experience and understanding rather than having it be the lens through which all my experiences are filtered and understood.

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