still the scales blind us.

I listened to a sermon yesterday about the life of Johnathon Edwards, and how he enjoyed God, and how his main aim in life was being able to enjoy God. He used to be scared of Thunderstorms at one time, and yet when he was given sight, he saw all the wonders and glories of God and creation, and when thunderstorms hit after his conversion, he would make music to God. He would have prayers that would come to him in a moment, and rather than pray formally or in any traditional manner, he would sing them to God with joy.

And he read passages of scripture multiple times a day. And never failed to see some new wonder that he had previously missed. His whole life centred around God. But one interesting thing I heard in this sermon, was that Johnathon Edwards was a great believer in meditating on Scripture. Not just reading words on a page, and keeping an eye on the clock to see when he had to finish to move onto other things. And this seems to be the thing that is missing from many Christians scripture readings today. Often myself included. We read a chapter, perhaps two or three. But we don't stop and meditate on what we have read. The words on a page go in our heads, and often as easily leave our heads as if they'd never been seen, and because of the lack of meditation and reflection, they don't enter our hearts. Its something that has come home to me of late. I suffer more than most folks I know with cognitive difficulties. And yet, reading words and that's it, and not staying and reflecting on the words, can only give these difficulites increase to mulitply. My urging to all, whehter with cognitive difficulties or not, was if you only have ten mins some mornings, to read Scripture for five mins, and spend the rest meditating and reflecting on what you have read. As words on a page is words on a page. But it takes more than words on a page, to go past our brain, and enter into our hearts.


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