Come and see

Stand somewhere out in creation long enough and you can feel it — that what you’re looking at is pointing past itself, to something just beyond where your eyes can reach. You’re not imagining it. The invisible, Paul wrote, has been “clearly seen… through the things that have been made,” since the beginning of the world.

The Bible works the same way. Its feasts, its words, its old stories are things made to be looked through — not a rulebook to master, but a window to see by.

I’ve spent most of a lifetime — six decades now — learning to look. What I’ve seen has changed me, and not as a mere intellectual endeavor. I can’t hand it to you, and no one can walk your road for you. But I can show you where I’ve been looking. Come and see for yourself. If something here rings true, look closer. If it doesn’t, no harm done.

What “Make Christ Your Aim” means

The old word we translate “law” — Torah — comes from an archer’s word: to aim. The law was never mainly a list of rules to obey. It was always aiming — pointing — at one thing: Christ. To “fulfill” it was never to perform it flawlessly; it was to hit what it had been aiming at all along.

So this isn’t a rule to perform. It’s a direction to face.