Reading is not my hobby. Hobby makes me think more of wiffle ball or Nerf sword-fighting or the St. Louis Cardinals. Reading is hard work. It is an effort to decode symbols that make up words and convey an author’s meaning. I should wear wrist bands for that and keep a water bottle close at hand.

Be that as it may, I love to read and God by His grace has put some really good books into my hands. Over the inter-semestermental era I got to open up the book Holiness by John Webster. Being very intentional with my words here, it is my favorite book apart from the Bible. It is only 105 pages and I’ve considered memorizing it. The read was less like a book and more like an encounter. I have been intensely edified and my love for the triune God has been deepened. I’ve never seen a book so small and yet so weighty. Not a sentence is wasted. I am thankful to the LORD for the help that it has been.

I want you to be helped, too. So for the next 20 days I plan to feature a quote from the book for each day. “20 Days of Webster.” I don’t like that title because I want you to think more about the content than the man. And the name “Webster” doesn’t make English-speakers immediately think about theology. But there it is anyway. “20 Days of Webster.”

I pray that you be helped and that perhaps you’ll go read the whole book. More than all of that, may the LORD be pleased to draw near in grace for His glory and your everlasting joy in Him.