Lenten Devotional: Week 2

Scripture

Place these words I’m speaking on your heart and in your very being. Tie them on your hand as a sign. They should be on your forehead as a symbol. Teach them to your children, by talking about them when you are sitting around your house and when you are out and about, when you are lying down and when you are getting up. Deuteronomy 11:18-19

Jesus replied, “It’s written, People won’t live only by bread, but by every word spoken by God.” Matthew 4:4

Devotional Thought

“We live in a culture that does not value concentration. Distraction is the order of the day. Many will, for example, go through all the activities of the day and evening with the radio on. Some will read a book and watch TV at the same time. Most people find it virtually impossible to go through an entire day focusing on a single thing. We are the lesser for this dissipation of our energies.”

Richard Foster –  A Celebration of Discipline

Questions

• What questions do you ask when you read the Bible, are there questions you are afraid to ask?
• Why do you do when you don’t understand something in the Bible?
• Do you expect to meet God in reading Scripture?