{"id":3085,"date":"2021-10-06T02:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:38","slug":"when-the-spirit-reframes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3085","title":{"rendered":"WHEN THE SPIRIT REFRAMES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How often does the Spirit reframe a familiar Scripture passage for you? And when I ask that, I am using &#8220;reframe&#8221; to describe the experience of opening the Bible, reading a couple of verses or an entire New Testament parable or an Old Testament story for the 100th time, and suddenly seeing it in a brand new light.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A radiant light, revealing deeper truths.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Personally, I get so excited when this happens. It is one of the things that fascinates me about the Bible and confirms it as being &#8220;God-breathed and &#8230; useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.&#8221; (2 Timothy 3:16)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is also where the truth of Hebrews 4:12a becomes quite obvious: &#8220;For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another reason to get excited about seeing a passage of Scripture in a fresh way: It is a good indicator that our own spirits are currently alive to God&#8217;s leading.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;re on the right track!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At times in my life when Scripture has seemed lifeless to me, the deadness has always turned out to be in my own soul.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(P.S. On the flip side, the experience of &#8220;how did I miss this before?&#8221; ought to help keep us humble about our own infallibility when it comes to fully and accurately interpreting any particular Bible passage.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How often does the Spirit reframe a familiar Scripture passage for you? And when I ask that, I am using &#8220;reframe&#8221; to describe the experience of opening the Bible, reading a couple of verses or an entire New Testament parable or an Old Testament story for the 100th time, and suddenly seeing it in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3086,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions\/3086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}