Time in the Word

Sometimes in our daily time with the Lord we can feel dry or disconnected. The following is a method that I have found that works well for me during these times 1: Pick a scripture that has meaning to me or that I have recently been studying. Sometimes I pick a scripture that I have heard recently in
a sermon. I love using this method with the Gospel stories. 2: Before I start I Pray for grace and insight while reading the scripture. 3: I than slowly and gently read and reread the Scripture. 4: When a word or phrase jumps out at me, I repeat that word or phrase, reflecting on
the thoughts, hopes, images and feeling that come. 5: Pray or sing the word or phrase. 6: Dialogue with Jesus my thoughts and feeling. 7: I will end by journaling how this scripture has impacted me. Lastly, with any method like this it is important to find ways to use it in your life and make it your own.

Beholding the Lord

‘..We all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit,’ (2 Cor 3:18)

What we look at and think about greatly effects who we are. Jesus talks about this in Luke 11:33-34. He says that our eye is the lamp of our body; the eye here is not only our physical eye, but also to our mind and imagination. Essentially, Jesus is saying we become what we think about and what we look at. When we behold Jesus, which is to meditate on scripture, we participate in the process of going from Glory to Glory; which is the process of becoming more like Jesus.

Jesus is the word of God manifest to us:

“..God’s immense richness is concentrated and focused at this one spot, the humanity of Jesus Christ, so that here, in this single Person, ‘are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge’, here ‘the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily’, here stands the Eternally Beloved ‘Son’, expressly indicated by the Father’s word: ‘Listen to him!’. .. “ Prayer by Hans Urs von Balthasar.