Suppose I had found a dog-eared paperback copy of Life in Hawaii for a dollar fifty at a used bookstore on some street downtown. Let’s say I’d just tossed it into the backseat of my car, intending to flip through it someday. Then let’s say it found its way into my home, where I stuffed it into the bottom shelf of my bookcase, along with old road atlases and some back issues of National Geographic. Would the book be any less valuable? Would it contain any less potential to transform my ministry and save me years of wasted energy and grief? No, of course not. The words would be the same, whether
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