When Jesus Sounds Like Me

My wife will tell you that one of my most annoying habits is finishing people's sentences. It's partly impatience. But it's also my propensity to think that I know better than the person speaking what they're trying to say. It makes conversations with me a bit one-sided because I end up speaking for both sides. We all do this from time to time. But we're more likely to do this with people we either don't know well or just flat out don't like. They're the people we associate with out of obligation, not desire, and hold in such low esteem that we'd rather talk to ourselves than validate their existence. You know who I'm talking about. Because, like me, your Bible is probably collecting more dust than margin notes. When we read the Bible, we often come across unfamiliar things or uncomfortable ones. Things that make us want to ignore the paradoxical or shake our fist at the incomprehensible. How comforting it is that we can always trust to be