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# "I will forgive" and I will Saturate
- URL: https://www.belonging.house/i-will-forgive-and-i-will-saturate/
- Published: 2026-09-14T10:35:06.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T10:35:06.000Z
- Description: A word for Rosh Hashanah, and the continuing series on the 12 I wills of Belonging House
- Author: Christ John Otto
- Tags: bible, prophetic, artists

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A wise person once said,  
God is not a character in my story,  
I am a character in God's story.

This I will,  
"I will saturate my self in all of the Bible  
and let its story become my story"  
is at the heart of Belonging House International.

And there are several things  
that we need to keep in mind.  
You have probably noticed that  
the Bible is not the first I will.

Faith in Jesus is first.  
Being filled with the Holy Spirit and surrendering to God is second.  
The experience of receiving Jesus in the Eucharist is third.  
Being in relationship with others in fourth.  
And then  
we talk about the Bible.  
We are an incarnational community.  
We are not a bible only community.  
Our faith is Biblical and scriptural  
but it is also sacramental and supernatural.  
And in the witness of scripture  
the Bible is the record of encounters with God.  
People in the Bible met God  
and then they wrote it down.

There is an old,  
and probably apocryphal story  
of two men in a train car  
sharing a compartment.  
One man is a bishop,  
and he takes out his daily office book  
to say morning prayer.  
The other man  
is a Baptist traveling salesman.  
The Baptist notices the Bishop  
saying his morning office,  
and he comments.  
"Ah, I see you are reading from the Bible.  
My church is founded on the Bible."

The Bishop,  
without looking up from his prayerbook,  
commented:  
"My church wrote it."

The Book of Common prayer  
teaches us  
Blessed Lord,  
who caused all holy Scriptures  
to be written for our learning:  
Grant us so to hear them,  
read,  
mark,  
learn,  
and inwardly digest them,  
that we may embrace  
and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life,  
which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ;  
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,  
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

We are to  
hear  
read  
mark  
learn  
and inwardly digest the Scripture.  
Holy Scripture  
is the tuning fork  
of our  
spiritual experience.

I am grateful that more than one person has said to me  
that when they read my books  
they hear  
"Bible, Bible, Bible."

You cannot get enough Bible.  
But the Bible is not a rule book  
or a book of precepts that we have to follow.  
The Bible is the manual  
on how to be in relationship with God.  
And it is also the guide  
on how your  
spiritual life  
is to be lived.

When you get into the Bible  
you start to hear how God speaks  
and then you can recognize  
God's voice  
in the rest of your life.

There is a great book  
called "What's Wrong with Protestant Theology."  
The basic idea is this,  
Protestants  
get an idea  
and then they look for a prooftext,  
a verse to back up that idea or experience,  
and make a doctrine out of it.  
That is the making of crazy.  
It will get you into trouble.  
The most dangerous part of this,  
is you can have a secular humanist worldview  
and think you are Christian.  
This is world's way of thinking.

We want to approach the Bible differently.  
We want to learn the whole story.  
We want to come into agreement in our lives  
with this story  
and let it shape us.  
And when we have a Biblically shaped life,  
we will eventually have a Christlike life.  
Because the Bible points to Jesus  
and Jesus is the Word made flesh.

It's not about dead letters on the page.  
It's about a living God  
and the record of how he deals with people.  
And here is a really important thing:  
The Author of the Bible  
is not going to contradict himself.  
God is not going to tell you to do something  
that the Bible condemns.  
God is consistent.

At the same time  
this book is living.  
And those who learn to really live with God  
and live in the Bible  
discover,  
through process,  
fullness of life.  
God wants to give you life to the full.

And so  
every day  
we come back to the Bible.  
The healthiest approach to the Bible  
is through the lectionary.  
We as a community use the daily  
mass lectionary used by the Roman Catholic Church.  
We chose this for practical reasons,  
You can find these readings in many places online  
and the readings are consistent.  
You are going to hear the gospels several times in a year  
and you are going to hear about 70% of the scripture  
annually.  
On Sundays you will hear almost the whole Bible  
in three years.

When you start using the lectionary,  
you discover two things.  
First,  
this is not a performance based  
Bible in year plan.  
You are a normal person,  
and you are going to fail,  
and you are going to miss readings,  
and you are going to have days where you forget.  
And there is no shame in that.  
You are a human being.  
Bible reading plans are for superhuman  
guys named Tim and Chip.  
You are normal.  
You're name isn't Chip.

Everyday  
you pick up where the reading is.  
It is the reading for today.  
You don't have to go back and read what you missed.  
And you will get a chance to hear the bit you missed  
some other time.  
We keep coming back to the readings  
again and again.  
And you when you get into the readings,  
you discover that the Bible comments on itself  
all the time.  
You begin to be immersed in a Biblical, kingdom worldview.  
You discover that this God is all about relationship.  
That he chooses and uses broken failed people  
with struggles,  
problems,  
sins,  
and failures.  
In fact, you learn  
that God uses broken  
people  
because that is all that is available.

And you begin to see yourself in those people,  
and you begin to see God speak to you  
the same way as he spoke to them.  
And you begin to shaped  
and transformed  
by this story.  
It is like being pickled.  
You begin to take on the flavor  
of this book.  
And you begin to take on the flavor of the Author.

It is not about you.  
It is about Jesus.  
And it is about hearing and recognizing  
his voice  
his nature  
and his ways.  
And you begin to learn how God does things  
and you begin to see like it says in Psalm 115:2.  
The Lord sits in heaven,  
what ever he wills to do  
he does.

God does whatever he wants  
and we are invited to come along for the ride.

Saturate yourself in all of the Bible,  
make this story your story.  
God is not a character in your story,  
you are a character in God's story.

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