Ready for Your Next Epiphany?
Sometimes when I read an article or book I have something jump out at me that the Holy Spirit illumines. It is an epiphany-a spiritual flash that changes something in my thinking that will eventually change something in my lifestyle and ministry. It may be something small, or something that the author did not emphasize at all . . . perhaps only a phrase or clause. I have read whole books for which I am deeply grateful for that one small deposit upon which I can build my life in Jesus Christ. I remember one book-I believe it was “The New Man for Our Time” by D. Elton Trueblood.” The only thing I remember from that book is an aside Elton threw into one of his paragraphs. It read something like this: “As I look out the window of my writing cabin in the mountains . . . ” Bam! That hit my spirit in a forceful way, depositing a seed in the soil of my consciousness that helped me focus in on my desire to write a book someday in a “writing cabin in the mountains.” Do you know what? Some thirty years later that seed germinated, and I found myself writing a book in a writing cabin in the mountains! I’m not certain the book would have materialized had I not been instructed by the epiphany of thirty years earlier.
