Hi, this is Hank Hanograph, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible

and Cerman broadcast with another Hank unplug short. I was sitting in my office

thinking about how inundated I have been with books. I mean, in my particular profession,

I have to constantly read, and sometimes the reading overwhelms me.

But when I think about it clearly, I recognize just how significant reading is

and how so many people have given up on this, this incredible discipline, perhaps never really been

involved in it to begin with.

Reading, well, it's not just intended to add more stuff to an overcluttered mind, but rather reading provides you with new heights of perspective.

You might say new depths of understanding. Some of the greatest breakthroughs that I have

personally experienced in my life have come as a direct result of reading.

I often think of Sir Isaac Newton's design of the telescope.

He could never have designed the telescope, he could never have designed the magnifying power of that telescope on his own.

Newton read.

Newton reflected on the accumulated knowledge of those who had come before him.

And so the source of his genius was immersion in a sea of revelation.

And of course, I've said this before, and it bears repeating right now, the greatest of all revelations is the Bible. Newton read it, and we should as well. Right now, I'm in the midst

of reading Matthew Chapter 13, not only reading it, but rereading it,

and then rereading it once again is, of course, the famous chapter on parables.

You need to go get your Bible and read this chapter and then do what I've done, reread this chapter.

Immerse yourself in reading. It will be transformational not only for this life, but for the

life that is to come. Remember, this life is but a drop in the ocean of eternity.

So long for now.

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