What verse (or verses) almost floored you the first time you read it?

[Sovereign Grace]

I know that some of you "ancients" on here may have a hard time recollecting this...another ... but what verse or passage of verses almost floored you the first time you read it? I'll go first...

I had not been a Christian a real long time when one day I was reading Nahum and read this: The oracle of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. A jealous and avenging God is the LORD; The LORD is avenging and wrathful. The LORD takes vengeance on His adversaries, And He reserves wrath for His enemies. The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, And the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. In whirlwind and storm is His way, And clouds are the dust beneath His feet.[Nahum 1:1-3]

I remember setting there reading it and I truly believe if I had been standing, that which I bolded and underlined would have caused me to hit the floor the moment I read it. It just hit me like a ton of bricks. Seeing how large clouds are in size compared to us, and the clouds being called the dust of His feet (yes, I know this is not to be taken literal, but His way of explaining how vast He is), and how a dust particle is compared to us size, just hit me hard. I try to think how enormous our universe is and that I'd figure 20 generations could never span the universe from one side of it to the other, and yet, God being omnipresent, there is not one square cm of this universe He is not there. He is way past our comprehension, yet we can know some things about Him as He gifted us His word to learn of Him.

Okay, which of youse guise will be next?

 

[MyCrows]

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. -Rom 8:9

I was reading this verse during a mainly feely- good exposition of Romans 8 and realized I did not belong to Christ.

 

[No Other Name]

Romans 9:14-21

 

[MW]

I had a Luther like experience when I read, "not imputing their trespasses unto them" (that is, if Luther actually had the experience as recorded). A little later I had to go back and do a thorough study of that chapter to make sure I wasn't being misled by my experience. Eureka moments can be quite deceptive. But I was glad to find that my theological revolution was biblical and central to the message of the gospel.

 

[Perichoresian]

Not the first time I read it, probably the tenth time... I remember passing through John 6 and these like verses hit me as a ton of bricks. Felt like Jesus was confidently saying this directly for me and my family during a difficult time in our lives and feeling a powerful sense of assurance and love from God.

John 6:40:
"For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

 

[Life Mathers]

Hebrews 3:7-11

 

[JvMill]

Romans 8:31

This took my intellectual acceptance of justification and sealed it unto my heart.