YOU!!! Are Scripture. – Mark Batterson
Company of Translators
We have access to hundreds of Bible translations in every size and shape imaginable. So we tend to take Scripture for granted. But I’m grateful for the translators, across the centuries, who devoted their lives to translating the sacred text into new languages. I think of the 72 Jewish elders recruited by Ptolemy II to translate the Old Testament from Hebrew into Greek. I think of the 47 scholars who translated the Textus Receptus into Elizabethan English. Some translators, such as William Tyndale, even gave their lives to give us their translations.
The sacrifices they made ought to increase our appreciation for Scripture. But my point is much loftier than that: you are among the company of translators. For better or for worse, your life is your unique translation. Just like the Septuagint or King James Version, your life translates Scripture into a language those around your can read. God doesn’t just want to speak to you through Scripture; He wants to speak through you. He wants to write His-story through your life. And Scripture is the script.
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