I’ve been re-reading Eugene Peterson’s book, Eat This Book, and he’s got me thinking.
Peterson talks a lot in this book about how we read and understand Scripture. One of the things he considers is the “live”liness of the Word.
That is, how Scripture reveals the living Lord.
It’s easy to fall into the habit of reading Scripture as if it’s about old things — old stories, old people, old truth. We get so familiar with Scripture that we don’t really “see” or “hear” anything new and alive in it.
Peterson advocates reading the Scripture with an awareness that it speaks of all our lives in a way that makes all things new. “So,” he writes, “lectio divina. A way of reading that guards against depersonalizing the text into an affair of questions and answers, definitions and dogmas.”
In other words, we read Scripture in a way that isn’t about religious arguments or proving our point, but is instead a way of getting to know our best Friend.
Now, that’s a way of reading Scripture I think I’ll enjoy.
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