More Than A Map

Do you know where this is?

This is Allegan County, Michigan.





This is where I grew up from age 13 to 21.

I rode my bicycle from Allegan to Fennville and back. I rode it from Allegan to Lake Michigan and my parents picked me up in the car. I rode with my brother, Ernest, around the loop from Allegan to Martin and then back through Plainwell and Otsego.

I went swimming in the lakes and hiked the trails. This isn't just a map to me.

What about you? When you read the Bible is it somewhere you have lived or does it seem like a foreign place to you? You have to spend time there (live there) to know it well and then it becomes more than a map to you.