Learning to chew on the Word

It’s that evil word so many evangelical/fundamentalists don’t like: meditation. 

Simon Chan in his book, Spiritual Theology, reflects deeply on the need for scripture meditation. We are given too quickly to analysis in our Western mindset. We see a text and think one of two things: “I need to do a word study and historical background and cultural background and literary analysis on this,” or, “I have no idea what this is saying and I’m not a theologian.”

We’ve lost the art of spiritual reading. We want to be faithful to the study of the Word. Yet, we also need the Word to penetrate our hearts and examine us. We need to quit looking at Scripture as simply a handbook or answer book. We need to take smaller bites and chew more.