Insight from Eugene Peterson

I am contuing to be inspired by Eugene Peterson's new book Eat This Book, which is guide on how to read Scripture on its own terms and not the terms we usually superimpose upon it. Just yesterday I was reading a section on what is called Lectio Divina, translated as 'Divine Reading'. How is we are to read Scripture?

Too ofte we do it just for inspiration or guidance in life. One of his main points is that what is contained in Scripture is not information but revelation. It is not God telling us things but revealing Himself to us.

We do not read Scripture like any other book. Peterso uses 4 latin terms that should guide our reading. They are Lectio (reading), Meditatio (meditate), Oratorio (Prayer) and Comtemplio (Live). These 4 are not to be done in a routinized way but instead are meant to overlap. We are to read, meditate on it, pray over it and live it in our lives. It's that easy. And that hard.

It is a process which we grow into and takes deliberate wqoir on our parts. This is something that i want to instill into my men-a new and deliberate way of reading Scripture that gets in down into our tummies and deep into our very lives.