The Sojourn

Category: Personal

  • The Surest Means to the Greatest End

    Jen Wilkin

    Someone asked me recently, after learning I was a Bible teacher, if I was a God-worshiper or a Bible-worshipper. The question didn’t come as a complete surprise. When you spend as much time as I do asking people to care about knowing their Bibles, someone is bound to ask if you have lost sight of the forest for the trees. My answer was simple: I want to be conformed to the image of God. How can I become conformed to an image that I never behold? I am not a Bible-worshipper, but I cannot truly be a God-worshipper without loving the Bible deeply and reverently. Otherwise, I worship an unknown god.

    Jen Wilkin, Women of the Word, p. 147

  • How Patience Promotes Learning

    Jen Wilkin

    We love “aha” moments—those moments when something that has confused us suddenly makes sense. What we sometimes overlook about “aha moments” is that they occur after a significant period of feeling lost. Could it be that those periods of feeling lost were actually preparing us for the understanding that was eventually going to come? Could it be that feeling lost is one way God humbles us when we come to his Word, knowing that in due time he will exalt our understanding?

    —Jen Wilkin, Women of the Word, p. 78–79

  • Joy Springs Forth

    We had crepe myrtles planted in our yard last November. They’ve been bare sticks in the ground throughout the past few months. Every day for a month I’ve gone outside to see if anything has changed on those branches. And then today, like a leafy whisper, buds finally emerged on the trees.