I am stuck in my reading of Matthew! I have read chapters 5-7 - and then the next day I read them again and the next day. . . . I read to learn, but also to listen - and in those chapters God keeps talking, and it seems like each day God is not finished with what I need to hear and to know.

But I guess the purpose of my reading the Scriptures is not for me to get into them, but for them to get into me.

But, come to think of it, is not that what also happens in worship - that by my giving myself in worship and adoration of Jesus, I discover that Jesus has implanted himself in me? And so with prayer, too? I reach out to God and speak, only to find he has reached out to me and has spoken?

Maybe I will start chapter 8 tomorrow - - but then, who’s in a hurry?

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