Meditations—points to ponder

Our practice of the Spiritual Disciplines is kept on course by our immersion in Scripture. 

It is that this reading, studying, memorizing and meditating 

is totally in the service of the life that really is life…

1 Timothy 6:19 (NRSV)  thus storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation 

for the future, so that they may take hold of the life that really is life.

1 Timothy 6:19 (The Message)  If they do that, they’ll build a treasury that will last, 

gaining life that is truly life.

We long with all our hearts to know for ourselves this with-God life that Jesus brings in all its Fullness. 

We will discover the Footprints of God in our daily existence—

we will venture out with God into areas where we have previously walked alone or not at all. 

The aim is not external conformity (whether to doctrine or deed) 

but the re-formation of the inner self—of the spiritual core, 

the place of thought and feeling, of will and character ...

Richard Foster with Kathryn Helmers Life with God: a life-transforming new approach to Bible Reading p10

Psalm 51:6 (NRSV)  You desire truth in the inward being; 

therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.

Psalm 51:10 (NRSV)  Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.

2 Corinthians 4:16 (NRSV)  So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature 

is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day.

2 Corinthians 4:16 (The Message)  So we’re not giving up. How could we! 

Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, 

on the inside, where God is making new life, 

not a day goes by without his unfolding grace.