Father, I read it again this morning and it did not sit right.
I am not going to pretend the verse said something other than what it said. I am not going to flatten it into a sentence I am comfortable with.
But I do not want to walk away from it either.
Sit with me in the discomfort. Do not give me a quick answer that lets me close the book and move on.
I would rather wrestle with You and limp out of it than understand a domesticated version of You that does not change me.
Show me what I am missing. Show me what I am bringing to it that is mine, not Yours. Show me where I am right to be uncomfortable and where the discomfort is the point.
I am not asking the Bible to be easier. I am asking to be braver in front of it.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.