Understanding Scripture
- Fundamental attitude of mind in Scripture – aspiration toward God, love reaching out to Him, the ardent desire to be with Him now and forever – is the only thing enabling us to penetrate its Mystery.
- Not principally a document to study, but God Himself Whom we encounter
- You can only come to understand Scripture on your knees
- We read Scripture in a spirit of reverence and love
Praying with the Bible
- It is a book of prayer (v. a book of prayers)
- Teacher prayer does not consist simply in a ritual practiced, but in a state of mind – more: in a way of living
- Can only be understood in faith and living faith requires prayer
- Making ourselves accessible to the “divine whisper”, attentive to God’s intentions and instructions
The Bible Shows Us Who We are and How We are to Live
- It is the book of humanity and the book of divinity
- It teaches we are fully alive standing before God as a factor in God’s Plan
- It teaches us to pray and to know that when we do we are participating in God’s work
