Milk or meat of God's word
Image via Wikipedia Human language is precious. It sets us off from the animals. It makes our most sophisticated scientific discoveries and our deepest emotions sharable. Above all, God chose to reveal Himself to us through human language in the Bible . In the fullness of time, He spoke to us by His Son ( Heb. 1:1–2 ), and that Son spoke human language. In like manner, He sent His Spirit to lead His apostles into all truth so that they could tell the story of the Son in human language. Without this story in human language, we would not know the Son. Therefore, human language is immeasurably precious. But it is also imperfect for capturing the fullness of God. In 1 Corinthians 13 , there are four comparisons between this present time and the age to come after Christ returns. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect co...