Tools for Growth – Divine Reading of the Word

Faith in Jesus Christ is both simple and complex.  Romans 10:9 is absolute truth:

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Jesus Christ completed the work of salvation.  Living a believing life is not always quite so simple.

Loved ones die.  Tragedies happen.  Lives shatter.

Hope hides in the despair.  Pressing in to find the hope takes courage and strength beyond our capacity sometimes.  Many have walked this road before us–many walk with us.  It is always too soon to quit.  For personal assistance, visit my Personalized Mentoring page.

The Bible is the source of the answers, but it makes no sense to those without the Spirit of God; sometimes it baffles those with the Spirit.  The devil loves to cloud our minds; he does it well.  God is greater.  God wrote the Bible (through forty-some scribes over a few hundred years); He understands it and wants us to as well.

Far too many think they cannot read the Bible.  That is a lie from the pit of hell.  Satan knows the Bible–he uses it all the time.  We MUST read the Word and know it…know the history, the facts and know the heart of each passage.

Listening with the ears of the heart is an art.  In the second century after Christ’s death, this method of reading the Scripture began to be taught.  It was (is) called Lectio Divina or Divine Reading.  It is a deliberate, intense way of approaching the Holy Bible.  It is a way of digging for the hope when despair chokes.  There are many articles on the detailed depths of Lectio Divina, but here is the simplified version.  As you read ask God to show you in the Word:

• Who He is.

• Who you are.

• What He wants you to do with your life.

God created us to be connected to us.  He wants us to know Him and His love–and to share it with others.  You will find that message again and again in the Scriptures.