Sitting with the Word

There are times when it is good to just sit with the Scripture.  Sitting with it does not require reading, it just requires sitting in its presence.  Maybe it is a moment for just sitting and holding it unopened in our hands and remembering the way it has been a spiritual companion and guide for the whole of our spiritual journey.  While the book we hold in our hands today may not be the very same one we first picked up to read as a beginning believer, the Words within it are the same.  Perhaps, it is a different version than the one from days past, but what we hold in our hands today marked as Holy Scripture is the same Word of God today as it was yesterday.    

So, as we take a minute, or most likely longer, to sit with the Scripture in our hands, we will begin to remember blessings.  We are likely to remember the blessings received as a child who read for the first times the wonderful stories of people like Abraham, or Noah, or Moses, or Ruth, or King David.  And as we consider this journey of contemplation we are going to smile with such joy as we remember how the Psalms have enriched our lives, gotten us through more one rough spot, and been like an ever flowing spring of living water.   Indeed, we have been blessed!   

Of course, each one of us is going to be walking a different path of remembrances as we sit with this holy book.  There are the powerful stories of Jesus, the thought provoking sentences of the Apostles, and the words of hope in those passages about what is ahead for us as the journey is done.  To sit with the Scriptures for a bit is to be blessed all over again.  And for every blessing, there will soon come forth a Word of praise.  It should be no surprise that when we put the Word is back on the shelf that we get up with a heart filled with gratitude and praise.