love letter

“Just as you do not analyze the words of someone you love, but accept them as they are said to you, accept the Word of Scripture and ponder it in your heart.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Scripture can often be treated as a textbook. We approach it as if we are studying for a test. How many facts and figures can we cram into our heads? We think the more we know about God, the more we know God.

How much different would it be if you approach Scripture like a love letter? If you spent time preparing your heart and spirit to hear what God wanted to say directly to you? If you looked at verses as words written to you from God?

I invite you to read the Scriptures slowly, taking smaller portions at one sitting. Pay attention to what stirs your heart. Then stay with it, ponder it, write about it, ask questions as to why it moved you. Allow the Holy Spirit to speak to you about it and tell you what He wants you to know.

Begin to see Scripture as a love letter from God to you and you taking the time to ponder it’s meaning, as an act of love back to Him.

Grace and peace,
Deb