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When I started transcribing the bible, I blindly accepted it as an opportunity for financial benefit, and writing the Bible quickly became more of a duty than a delight. To me, who was raised by Christian parents, the stories in the Bible were so familiar. Yet, as I read through it again this year, it felt so unfamiliar and overwhelming. Then I realized that I never truly let myself down before God to listen to what he wanted to tell me through the Bible. I never gave him the chance to talk to me because I never touched the Bible with the intention to listen.
With every word I wrote and every verse I read, the Bible has become a source of communication between me and God. The doubts that initially clouded my mind became clear when God answered all my prayers through the stories of Jesus. Diving deeper into the bible also unfolded layers of misunderstanding and it was as if God was directly telling me to follow after Jesus to become more humble and kind toward myself and the people around me. So, writing the Bible, once a daunting task, became a labor of love and an act of devotion to find spiritual peace and love.
Honestly, my faith over the years has been rocky. Therefore, there were so many instances in my life where I look back and think that God wasn’t with me. But he was. I was just wallowing in my own pain for such a long time that I wasn’t able to see him. I think this opportunity to read the bible and spend so much time worshipping in God's words has genuinely left me so happy. And through all the hardships that come with writing endless pages of the bible, I was still able to truly feel how much God loved me. That’s something that going on my phone all day would have never taught me. Learning to love through all of the hardships that come with living as sinful beings was one of the biggest takeaways I had as I was writing the bible. And it reminded me how special a community centered around God is.