Today Dailies presents a book by Eugene Peterson who wrote The Message translation

of the Bible. I invite you to Eat this Book!

We grow in accordance with the revealed Word implanted in us by Holy Spirit.

Meditations—points to ponder

What is neglected is the reading of the Scriptures transformationally—

reading in order to live the new life IN Christ. 

In order to read the Scriptures adequately and accurately, 

it is necessary at the same time to live them. 

Not to live them as a prerequisite to reading them and not to live them 

in consequence of reading them but to live them as we read them—

the living and reading reciprocal—body language and spoken words, 

the back and forthness assimilating the reading to the living to the reading. 

Reading the Scripture is not an activity discrete from living the gospel 

but one integral to it. 

It means letting Another have a say in everything we are saying and doing. 

It is as easy as that … and as hard.

Eugene Peterson Eat this Book! the art of spiritual reading Introduction

2 Corinthians 3:2 (NRSV) — 2 You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, 

to be known and read by all;