Keep Looking: The Life Changing Secret to Reading the Bible
A biologist once told a story about his Harvard professor named Louis Agassiz, who taught him a simple habit to help him see more than he ever dreamed. The lesson he learned is also the secret to lifelong and life-changing Bible reading: keep looking.
One reason we see so little when we read the Bible is that we do not give ourselves long enough to look. John Piper shares the story “Agassiz and the Fish” in his new book “Reading the Bible Supernaturally” (desiringgod.org/books/reading.... In the seemingly ordinary act of reading the Bible, something miraculous happens: God gives us new eyes to see more of him - if we are willing to slow down and keep looking.
desiringgod.org/keep-looking
Script: David Mathis, Marshall Segal (Adapted from an excerpt from “Reading the Bible Supernaturally”)
Production: Stefan Green
Voice Over: John Piper
Creative Direction & Animation: Jorge R Canedo E.
Design: Chris Anderson
Additional Animation: Victor Claudio Silva, Phil Borst
Music & SFX: John Poon
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Holy Canoli This guy is 100% right....literally, ,,,like FOR REAL, like ARE YOU KIDDING MEEEEE???!!!!???? I went to church my whole life....and finally reading FOR MYSELF, every single day....every night....(Bible APP all day!!)....It has completely flipped my life paradigm UPSIDE DOWN!!! It is true. Keep Looking!!!!. Keep on. God not only exists, but He is The Kind, Good, Good Father Shepherd, Friend, Lover.......and he intimately desires and loves us and has since the beginning of time! Each of us....All of us!!! And ME!!!!! He has wooed and pursued me and you relentlessly now and for eternity....Holy Canoli....!!!! GOD ROCKSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@JJ-wx3nd
4 жыл бұрын
I still don't get it. But hopefully one day I can be like you "finally reading for myself". :)
@KJSDASHOPAHOLIC
4 жыл бұрын
I feel like God has big plans for this person.
@Humberto.v16
3 жыл бұрын
@@JJ-wx3nd dont expect a waaaahahaah, but its beautiful to know the word and to keep it
Bible in the morning. Bible in the evening. Bible at suppertime. Keep on reading the holy bible. Get closer to God every time.
This is SO awesome. Beautiful art matched with beautiful truth.
Wow! How great is our God!
This is just so eye-pleasing! Makes me want to read my Bible more today!
Yes Lord. Lead us in Your Truth.
I'm amazed with this video. So powerful, with such a beautiful message.
I know that this same concept applys to looking at Jesus Himself The more we look the more we know and love Him!
@JoMaMaz
3 жыл бұрын
Yes! You've got it! :D We don't want to be like the Pharisees and end up being more about the Scriptures themselves than about the One that the Scriptures point us to - Jesus. :) "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life." - John 5:39-40 ESV
I. LOVE. THIS.
I would love to see how this video was made. Very creative and a great message!
@desiringGod
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks to our creative and animation director Jorge. Check out jrcanest.co/ to learn more.
Yes! It will change everything about your life!
this is soooooo amaziiiing
This is marvelous!
Yes.. This is true . Trasures!! Thanks for this simple illustration. Love this
Great video keep posting please!!!
I like the art. Good message. God is Great!
shared this to my FB.....thanks so much.....
That's right! I have found some wonderful things in God's word but I realize I have barely scratched the surface. I will keep looking until I see Him for who He is. All satisfying, all-wise, all-precious, all-just, all-good and just all together lovely as we sing in one gospel song :)
More videos like this please!
Spot on.
MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS PLS! SO GOOD, TYSM.💯🙌
Love it !
Really GREAT SHARED!!!!!
love this.
I love this!
Thank you so much for this video
Stupendous!
The content is unreal, just shared this to my group would love to connect just subscribed:)
this video was amazing!! #SmileWithFaith
such talented and skillful writer and animation and idea and oh so amazing your works!!! i hope i could do things like this.
Wow!
Hallelujah self reading really changed me praise God
*I love this* John (God) always delivers! :))
This is fantastic anime, Mr. Canedo! & Team! Congratulations sirs! Curious timing, just finished a Miyazaki video. Yours is way better! (Must be another, God thing, - keeps happening to me, God watching, helping me, telling me, this way, stay on "his" path. LOL! Anime arrow!) Pastor John's teaching is just like anime - God's words light up on the screen, meaningful, fill with life before my eyes. A wonderous thing - I "see", really see color & motion & life. The living word of God! Praising His Holy Name, Christ Jesus! Amen!
Whoever did this animation is talented!
Wooooow
Amen
And if we keep looking we are changed by it. 2 Corinthians 3:18 God is so good!
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This might be the best video ever lol
I would love to read one book of the bible for a whole year to do what this is talking about. Any suggestions?
what was the most important thing the professor wanted the student to notice?
@MatthewFearnley
3 жыл бұрын
One commentator’s helpfully posted a version of the story that this is based on: people.bethel.edu/~dhoward/resources/Agassizfish/Agassizfish.htm The answer is there. But personally, I didn’t feel that finding out this fact made it easier to see how the message applies to the Bible, what sort of things we should be looking for in a passage. Maybe the point of the message is just that finding that truth needs the dedication and the spending of time towards it, before it will “click”, and before it will actually feel worth discovering.
Chew the cud
@robertjayroe9900
7 жыл бұрын
Ziggy Niebank Exactly right.
where do I find more of these?
@desiringGod
6 жыл бұрын
There are a few more on our Feature Videos playlist: kzread.info/head/PLAcB0f-21Xj3ZCG2z6fXmj_B58QsjQyuR
Reminds me of when I started reading the Bible again and started seeing prophecies about Jesus Christ’s first coming throughout the Old Testament. I had no idea the first time I read through, and now I keep finding things every few days 🤔😅😄
So what did the professor want the student to learn about the fish? He never said. I'd go to the administration.
Okay that was nice, but what was the “one thing” the student couldn’t find?
@luisalberto7559
6 жыл бұрын
EXACYLY
Can we look at other religions, world history, and anthropology in this same manner?
@Nadine4266
6 жыл бұрын
etf42 you can try but the Bible is 100% truth, with the rest truth is mixed with theory and lies.
By not reading it?
tbh everytime i open up the bible i have more questions that answers
@LovelyAndTrue
3 жыл бұрын
Questions lead to understanding. :)
@janette499
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah idk lol hopefully one day
Honestly how can there be 30 people that dislike this video...It is so true of everything in life. They must be automatic trolls of negativity, just carrying out their pre-programmed marching orders.
@MatthewFearnley
3 жыл бұрын
I liked this video, but two things bothered me: one, that we never hear what “one of the most obvious features” about the fish is; two, that I was not, at the end of a three-minute video, truly convinced that the fish could be worthy of all that time studying. But to address those things: perhaps one of the main points to learn here is that not even a skilfully produced video like this is going to persuade anyone about the intricacies of the fish are worth studying; and in that vein, this obvious fact about the fish probably isn’t going to impress many people, if they’ve spent so little time looking at the fish for themselves. In this sense, the fish does serves as a good analogy for the Bible.
Eat the fish!
Is this john piper?
@desiringGod
6 жыл бұрын
Yes. The script is adapted from a section of his book “Reading the Bible Supernaturally” and it is Piper’s voice.
you truly missed the point of your religion-- your words are a warped bastardization of spirituality. give up your false God, embrace love. Google "cosmos," Carl Sagan
@LovelyAndTrue
3 жыл бұрын
Our God IS love. The essence of the universe, the reciprocity and force of creation itself.
Wow!