If only you saw things like I did… I have my quiet times using “the message’ paraphrase mostly. I find that I have read other versions of the bible so much that somehow I have managed to inoculate myself from the sharp scalpel of truth. Sometimes the Holy Spirit is able to cut through this defence with my N.I.V. (the translation I mostly use for bible study or teaching) but I have found it happens more regularly when I engage with “the Message’. This morning is an example of that.