Chewing The Bread of The Word: The
Chewing The Bread of The Word: The
Chewing The Bread of The Word: The
I. Bible DTR
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but who delight in the law of the LORD
and meditate on his law day and night.
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They are like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither—
whatever they do prospers.
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Not so the wicked!
They are like chaff
that the wind blows away.
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Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
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For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will be destroyed.
1. Blessed are the ones who don’t do evil things, but who
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2. Blessed are the ones who don’t do evil things, but who
___________ on ___________________________.
B. Meditate (hagah)
A. Read (lectio)
• Take the bread and put it in your mouth.
• Read slowly—gingerly.
• Reading out lout will force you to slow down.
• Bite size is OK. The point is not to get through Scripture
—but to get Scripture through you.
B. Think (meditatio)
• Move it around in your mouth; chew; break it down.
• Move from looking at the words of the text to entering
the world of the text
• Requires imagination
D. Live (contemplatio)
• Digest it—keep working on it even hours after you’ve
read it.
• Let it nourish you and give you strength as you go about
your everyday, ordinary life.
• ‘Contemplatives’ are not perfect people. When we do
not live out the words we have heard, we are drawn
again to God to seek strength from Him.
V. Bringing It Home
What can you do this week to take one small step towards eating
this bread of life?