Lydenstyd-oordenkings - 9 Maart 2010

Dit gaan goed met die mens wat sy vertroue in die Here stel
en hom nie wend tot duister magte
en tot mense wat hulle met skyngode ophou nie.

Here my God, U het baie wonderlike dinge gedoen;
U dink altyd aan ons; daar is niemand soos U nie.
Ek sou daarvan wou vertel en daaroor praat,
maar dit is te veel om op te noem.

Dit is nie diereoffers of graanoffers wat U wil hê nie,
nie brandoffers of sondeoffers wat U vra nie;
U wil gehoorsaamheid hê.
Daarom het ek gesê: "Hier het ek gekom soos dit in die boekrol vir my voorgeskrywe is.
Om u wil te doen, my God, is my een begeerte,
U woord is my hele lewe."

Ps 40:4-8 (NAV)

Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust,
who does not look to the proud,
to those who turn aside to false gods.

Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders you have done.
The things you planned for us no one can recount to you;
were I to speak and tell of them,
they would be too many to declare.

Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
but my ears you have pierced;
burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.
Then I said, "Here I am, I have come- it is written about me in the scroll.
I desire to do your will, O my God;
your law is within my heart."

Ps 40:4-8 (NIV)

According to the method of Lectio Divina, we just keep reading the Scriptures; that is all. We just keep listening, growing in trust, and growing in love as in any relationship. The Spirit who wrote the Scriptures is within us and enlightens us as to what the Scriptures are saying to us. The word is ultimately addressed to our inmost being. It starts with what is most outward and works toward what is most inward to awaken us to the abiding presence of God. When we are in the untitive understanding of Scripture, the outward word confirms what we already know and experience.

Thomas Keating