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Many Christians today read through the Bible as if it were an instruction manual for piecing together buyer-assembled particle board furniture. Some of it is obvious, and some of it is confusing. We plod along through each book, chapter by chapter, not always understanding, but somehow forcing things together to look like the item pictured on the box. However, when it comes to following Christ, we should do more than haphazardly throw together our understanding of Scripture because doing so will lead to an uncertain life—though, on the outside, it looks to others like the picture of the thing on the box, that preconceived idea of how Christians are supposed to act and think.
How can we better read and meditate on the Bible so that we have a better understanding of God’s precepts? One way practiced since early Christianity is that of lectio divina, or “divine reading”.
