A New Tutor

To keep up with the modern age we need to be continually in learning mode. There always appears to be something new to know. Now I am very pro learning having spent 34 working in education! The question remains who are my tutors and mentors.

As Christians we are to certain extent faced with an expectancy of learning seeing as we are called disciples. Disciples in the Greek means learner. In the Hebrew it also adds the connotation of teacher as well.

As we start look at disciplines that may add to our learning and ultimately our spiritual formation. Lectio Divina starts to come into focus. Lectio Divina is about "sacred or devotional reading" of the Bible. This is where our present story and God's story meeting under the tutelage of the Holy Spirit. This means that I read the Bible slowly and intently with an expectation that God is going to say something that is tailor made for me right now!

I must say in the last month I have changed my devotional pattern to; one Psalm, one chapter of Proverbs and using Lectio Divina through the Gospel of John. I read very slowly and gently through the Gospel of John until something arrests me and God starts to reveal things that matter in my life right now. I must say this has revolutionised my devotions over the last month. It has brought such depth.


I do not have time to walk completely through Lectio Divina but "Uncle Google" will help you work it out if you want to know!

I firmly suggest it is worth taking a look at!