The scriptures invite us into a world of extraordinary adventure and eternal consequence. Rains flood the earth, and seas part. A wandering nation eats from heaven while drinking from a rock. Nations and kings rise and fall for good reason. A prophet opens the heavens for a glimpse of its legions and then disappears aloft. Dead children rise, dead men walk from the grave, and a donkey talks. And a perfect man walks on water, saying that this barely imaginable world is all around us.

Living scripturally is to awake to profound possibility, to enter an always-new, ever-unfolding, utterly magnificent world. Living scripturally is life rich with the greatest possible meaning and purpose, with the assurance that heroic love will draw one onward and upward without end in an embrace of the greatest comfort, consolation, and security. May you live scripturally from now into eternity.