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In choosing where to read, some people find it helpful to follow
the daily lectionary. Others find it simpler to follow a study guide
available from various Christian publishers. You may simply want
to choose a passage that interests you-a gospel or an epistle, perhaps-and
study it on your own using commentaries and other study aids.
This is not quite the same as study, although the two often occur
together or at nearly the same time. However, while one can remain
relatively objective in the pure study of Holy Scripture, meditation
requires that the believer allow the words and ideas to affect him
personally-to speak to his own situation. While studying the passage
may be like carefully laying a brick in line with other bricks,
meditation is like stepping back and seeing the mansion as a building
where people will someday live.
when you express your concerns, needs, intercessions to the Lord,
and allow him to answer you by quietly listening. This too can be
a natural outflow of your study and mediation, as it is often in
a time of meditating before the Lord that our questions and needs
are met.
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