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Mirah Jang
Right before I heard of this bible copying event I was actually considering copying the dictionary,
so when I heard of this opportunity I was quite excited…very excited…for the prizes. I originally
thought it would be easy, and I would be done with it before 2023, but it didn’t take me long to
realize I underestimated the scribes who copied the bible. While doing the copywork at the
beginning, my motivation was to finish it, but after some time, my motivation became to study in
depth the areas of the four gospels I didn’t know. Some days, the areas I copied that day would
speak to my situation and problems I was facing- whether it be my physical situation, spiritual
situation, or mental situation…a lot on the mental situation. There was and most likely still is the
heart of not wanting God’s words in my heart and life, but I found it very wise how they used
reverse psychology on my fleshly desires to feed my spirit. This was especially helpful for me to
understand the order of events in Jesus’ life and his public ministry, and it was interesting to see
how each of the authors differed in angles of perspective of how they recorded Jesus, yet they
all harmonized and unexceptionally showed Jesus as the one who lived the life of love. I
actually would think that if atheists also had the opportunity to copy the same books (including
Acts and Romans) they would be inevitably converted. At the same time I was embarrassed to
see how little I read the bible. God changed the life of many great saints and theologians with
one verse, just one verse is enough, but that is not an excuse to neglect the rest of the bible. All
of it is the word of God, and all of it is the truth.
I think I have been avoiding the bible right before and after entering college, and my spiritual
health & physical health was going downhill fast. My mental health was already at the bottom. I
couldn’t really feel any direction, nor did I want to return to living a healthy lifestyle. I was
trapped in the thought of hatred, being easily annoyed and coming to despise human
relationships. Yet I didn’t seek God. I just decided in my head that all relationships are
uncomfortable and there is no one you can really trust. Communication was something I wanted
to avoid since I had to think of how to not offend someone but be truthful with them. I couldn’t
find peace in the sermons nor the prayer meetings and it was so frustrating to be unable to
properly express or feel emotions nor think straight. This was one of the reasons I was thinking
of copying the dictionary, because there is order in it. But God provided something even better,
even though I pushed the word to the side because I lost faith in its ability to bring me peace,
with love he brought it to me again- and it did bring me peace. Because I had to have total
concentration while copying I could reminiscent on each word and sentence, not for just a few
minutes, but for hours. I am grateful for God guiding me back to him, and I want to thank the
good people of God whom God used so preciously and powerfully.
so when I heard of this opportunity I was quite excited…very excited…for the prizes. I originally
thought it would be easy, and I would be done with it before 2023, but it didn’t take me long to
realize I underestimated the scribes who copied the bible. While doing the copywork at the
beginning, my motivation was to finish it, but after some time, my motivation became to study in
depth the areas of the four gospels I didn’t know. Some days, the areas I copied that day would
speak to my situation and problems I was facing- whether it be my physical situation, spiritual
situation, or mental situation…a lot on the mental situation. There was and most likely still is the
heart of not wanting God’s words in my heart and life, but I found it very wise how they used
reverse psychology on my fleshly desires to feed my spirit. This was especially helpful for me to
understand the order of events in Jesus’ life and his public ministry, and it was interesting to see
how each of the authors differed in angles of perspective of how they recorded Jesus, yet they
all harmonized and unexceptionally showed Jesus as the one who lived the life of love. I
actually would think that if atheists also had the opportunity to copy the same books (including
Acts and Romans) they would be inevitably converted. At the same time I was embarrassed to
see how little I read the bible. God changed the life of many great saints and theologians with
one verse, just one verse is enough, but that is not an excuse to neglect the rest of the bible. All
of it is the word of God, and all of it is the truth.
I think I have been avoiding the bible right before and after entering college, and my spiritual
health & physical health was going downhill fast. My mental health was already at the bottom. I
couldn’t really feel any direction, nor did I want to return to living a healthy lifestyle. I was
trapped in the thought of hatred, being easily annoyed and coming to despise human
relationships. Yet I didn’t seek God. I just decided in my head that all relationships are
uncomfortable and there is no one you can really trust. Communication was something I wanted
to avoid since I had to think of how to not offend someone but be truthful with them. I couldn’t
find peace in the sermons nor the prayer meetings and it was so frustrating to be unable to
properly express or feel emotions nor think straight. This was one of the reasons I was thinking
of copying the dictionary, because there is order in it. But God provided something even better,
even though I pushed the word to the side because I lost faith in its ability to bring me peace,
with love he brought it to me again- and it did bring me peace. Because I had to have total
concentration while copying I could reminiscent on each word and sentence, not for just a few
minutes, but for hours. I am grateful for God guiding me back to him, and I want to thank the
good people of God whom God used so preciously and powerfully.
