Have you opened your Bible after a hard day after the betrayal in your marriage and read the words on the page and couldn’t even really comprehend them?
Do you feel guilty that Scripture does not seem to be landing the way it used to or you even wonder if something is spiritually wrong with you because you cannot seem to receive comfort from the words you know are true?
Are you longing for a way to come to God in His word that goes deeper than just reading because you feel desperate for Him to speak to you in your pain?
In this Monday Heart Check I am encouraging you to try an ancient practice that has been used by followers of Jesus for over fifteen hundred years and that completely changed the way I came to Scripture in the hardest season of my healing journey.
"Lectio Divina” or sacred reading is simply coming to Scripture to encounter God.
To listen.
To receive.
To be transformed by what He wants to say to you personally in this moment.
We will read Lamentations 3:22-23 written by Jeremiah in the middle of complete devastation and yet full of some of the most hope-filled words in all of Scripture. As we are reading I will introduce you to the four movements of Lectio Divina:
Read - lectio
Reflect - meditatio
Respond - oratio
and Rest - contemplatio.
This practice takes a few minutes and I believe it is going to open something in you that is going to prepare your heart for God to speak to you directly and exactly where you are at today.
Great is His Faithfulness!
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