how to fellowship with God's Word
First things first...I'm listening to the new Springsteen cd as I write this. Quite a bit different than anything else he has put out. It's a collection of folk songs written by Pete Seeger set to a folk/Dixieland background. Pretty amazing. One review I saw of it said that Springsteeen's voice was 'a field holler'. Pretty well sums it up. If you've never been a fan of The Boss, ya' gotta give this a listen. It's a bit different.
Now to the other subject matter. One of the men from church named Bob approached me a week ago Sunday and was frustrated with trying to read/study...etc Scripture and could I help him. Well, we got together for lunch last week and I tried to give him some insights and ideas to follow.
The first idea is based on how we read. Most of us read to get information and to be able to use it in our lives. We often carry this over into Scripture as well. What facts can I learn to use later? Scripture is not meant to be used that way. It is not 'information' but 'revelation'. One of the ideas is learning to look at Scripture as God's revealing of Himself to us, not us gathering facts and theology about God.
The second idea is one of my main points about having a devotional life at all. It is not something that we do, but rather it is someone that we meet wtih. This is a revolutionary idea for our fellowship with God. We don't put a devotional time on a calendar as a thing to do and then cross it off when we are done. Rather, we need to learn to look at it as a divine appointment with God. One this begins to work itself into our everyday life, it will absolutely turn our devotional lives upside down.
With this in mind, I gave Bob the assignment to read through the letter to the Philippians every day for the next 30 days and to try to put these two ideas to work in the midst of it. At the end of these 30 days, we're going to get together and see what God did.
Now to the other subject matter. One of the men from church named Bob approached me a week ago Sunday and was frustrated with trying to read/study...etc Scripture and could I help him. Well, we got together for lunch last week and I tried to give him some insights and ideas to follow.
The first idea is based on how we read. Most of us read to get information and to be able to use it in our lives. We often carry this over into Scripture as well. What facts can I learn to use later? Scripture is not meant to be used that way. It is not 'information' but 'revelation'. One of the ideas is learning to look at Scripture as God's revealing of Himself to us, not us gathering facts and theology about God.
The second idea is one of my main points about having a devotional life at all. It is not something that we do, but rather it is someone that we meet wtih. This is a revolutionary idea for our fellowship with God. We don't put a devotional time on a calendar as a thing to do and then cross it off when we are done. Rather, we need to learn to look at it as a divine appointment with God. One this begins to work itself into our everyday life, it will absolutely turn our devotional lives upside down.
With this in mind, I gave Bob the assignment to read through the letter to the Philippians every day for the next 30 days and to try to put these two ideas to work in the midst of it. At the end of these 30 days, we're going to get together and see what God did.
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