Based on a personal decision to read through
the New Testament in 2013, I have been reading the letters of Paul to the
churches. It is quite amazing the wealth, questions, answers, mysteries and
simple gospel truths in these verses. Since like I said, meditation is an issue for me, I can’t help thinking that I’m missing a lot by simply reading and
half-heartedly thinking about these verses.
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| That the eyes of our hearts be enlightened |
I’m doing a back track
from Ephesians down so I can copy out Paul’s prayers for the churches, insert
personal pronouns and pray them out. This simple act has thought me two things:
1.
Copying out the scriptures by hand has
helped me a bit better to concentrate on the verses.
2.
Praying the scriptures is the way to go. I
haven’t gone really far in this but there is definitely something worth trying
here.
Pending
when I become an expert at training my mind to meditate on scriptures, I
trust God to bless this labour by filling me with the knowledge of His will in
all wisdom and spiritual understanding and that may the eyes of my heart be enlightened
that I may know what is the hope to which He has called me…Guess who has been
praying her scriptures. You try it.
PS:
I kinda
avoided the both books of Corinthians…every reading makes me wonder what kind
of church they had going on (hint: they had a guy who was sleeping with his
dad’s wife!)… Don’t get me wrong, the books of Corinthians are
amazing and there is a lot of talk about many of the doctrines we quarrel about
but may be that is a pointer- divisive quarrels over doctrines are symptoms of
an underlying disease of the church-they are not the disease. I digress....Go
pray your scriptures.
PPS: For readers in America and other participating countries,
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! Here in Nigeria, we are heating it up for Christmas. Already,
carol service invitations and Christmas decorations are springing up everywhere.
Again, I digress. Now go pray your scriptures. Really.
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