Creation- The Bible Experiment
Posted on 26. Sep, 2009 by Jeremy in Bible Experiment, Meditation
Genesis 1:1-2 “First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don’t see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God’s Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.”
Suggested Times:
Lectio: 5 minutes
Meditatio: 8 minutes
Oratio: 5 minutes
Contemplatio: 5 minutes
kim
Sep 28th, 2009
Lectio: “don’t see”
Meditatio: God made it all – the Nano World and that “measured” so feebly in something we call light years. Micro and macro are HIs doing – His understanding. How He conceived such, ordered such is so beyond my analytical capacity. There are some equipped to search it out…to break it down, to find the relationships amongst it all. More power to them. But I am less the scientist, more the poet. God’s Word is made for men like me. The truth of Story resonantes within me, strengthens my resolve and drives me to transformation. Story is the fuel and expression of the soul. God uses it because it is more not less. It is where He exists in ways that do not over power us, overwhelm us. It is the language that we share. We are His imagination- He is realized through the vehicle of ours.
God is in and totally aware of the nano world which we do not see, that we only postulate as of yet. We imagine it. And it is for us. And in such, we make that realm work for us. It is, regardless of us. But it is made reality to us, through imagination.
There are some in Christian circles who call imagination, even story, sin- something apart from God and His working. Nothing could be more untrue- “heretical” to borrow their word.
So often the Spirit comes to me and says, “Let me tell you about something…let me show you a scene, this thing is like this”… its all means of story. I want to unburden people from hearing anwers…I think sometimes we are listening for facts, test question answers…for a language that is fallen – less – of men. God is speaking the language which He shares with us. A language that contains the cosmos: macro and micro- a langauge which somehow communicates all.
Oratio: Tell me a story, God.
Contemplatio: happy
Sara
Sep 28th, 2009
Lectio: brooded
Meditatio: I hear in my heart God’s saying I’m going through a lot of changes spiritually and I’ll be open to things I’ve never encountered before, I’ll start out like an infant but work myself up to an adult over the months or possibly even years.. I’m hatching into new spiritual things but He’s working on me right now through the stage of trusting… I just need to learn how to trust…
Oratio: God, work through me, discipline me, do what ever it takes! My weakness is trusting and you know that very well, I want to overcome it. I need you desperately!! I just want our relationship to grow intimately and strong… Dad, I love you.
Contemplatio: comfortable and soothing
Madi
Sep 28th, 2009
Lectio: God created
Meditatio: It is so hard for me to wrap my mind around the fact that God made EVERYTHING. When I start thinking about it I have tiny,quiet voice saying “Its not possible”, but when I think deeply about it God gives me peace and I just know without a doubt that He is the Creator. The problem is I don’t think deeply about it as much as I have the doubts. I want to be able to be in awe that he made everything, its just these thoughts in my head are keeping from that. I want a child-like-faith where doubts don’t enter my mind,where I just know that He is who He says he is.
Oratio: God, I want a child-like-faith where my trust is in you completely . In your name I rebuke these thoughts pulling me away from you. God I need peace about some questions in my life/mind, Let me know that You are who You say you are!! I want to grow a deeper relationship with you through this. Amen.
Contemplatio: God is faithful.
kacey
Sep 28th, 2009
Lectio : “God created the Heavens and Earth”
Meditatio : Personal.
Oratio : Lord, please guide me on the path of which I was created to travel. Help me understand all the things I am meant to do and how you want things done with my life.
Contemplatio : In wonder and awe with our Lord.
tommy
Sep 30th, 2009
Lectio: emptiness
Meditatio: personal; i need to spend more time with God
Oratio: personal
Contemplatio: reassuring
Mandy
Oct 2nd, 2009
Lectio: nothingness
Meditatio: What I get from reading this is sort of an analogy. At one point the earth was nothing at all. There was no such thing. I’m sort of comparing it to people. Some people who feel that they have nothing, and think that they have no purpose, they feel they’re worthless. If they just realized that with God they would have everything they need, they would become a person full of whatever they were missing before, if that makes sense. It’s so hard to believe that there is this God who was and is powerful enough to have created EVERYTHING. If these”worthless” people could just understand that, and put their trust into what they cannot see, life would change for them. I’m so sick of people complaining about what materialistic thing they could have, when all they need is God to come into their lives and create everything that they need, like He did with earth.
Oratio: God I pray that you will move in my life and other peoples lives and for us to know that you are there, and you are a great provider. All we need is in you. I pray that you will help me to encourage others to become stronger in you, and not be led astray.
Amen.
Contemplatio: whoa.
Dianne
Oct 4th, 2009
Lectio: all you don’t see
Meditatio: I beleive God is reassuring me that He is in control. All of my problems are the only things I see but what I dont see is that through all of this, He is working behind the door. Naturally I only see what’s in front of me but I need to focus on what I don’t see. I believe He is telling me not to worry b/c He has my life in his hands, from the things I can see with my eyes to the “behind the scenes stuff” that He is doing. Once again it all comes down to trust.
Oratio: Father help me to give you everything I’m struggling with. I lay it all down before you. Thank you b/c even though I can’t see you, I can feel you and b/c I know I dont have to worry about my future or about what’s going on right now. Help me to understand that whatever You do is for my own good. Amen.
Contemplatio: peace.
Layla
Oct 5th, 2009
Meditatio: I am a soup of nothingness without God. But with him i am a beautiful light shinging the way for people to find him and help guide them through this broken empty land.
oratio: Abba, so many people say I am nothing, i am not beautiful, but you say i am something. you show me i am beautiful and that you love more then i can even fathom. you show me i am a beautiful and wonderous light. That you put me here to show others you and that they can be a light as well! you whipser in my ear and theirs that u mean the world to me and that we are not a soup of nothingness. so what is the point of listening to this world? You oh God say i am everyhting to you…. AMEN
contemplatio: lost and confuesd. so hard to listen
Faith
Oct 5th, 2009
Lectio-First
Meditatio-God places things in order.There’s a timing for everything.There must be a “first” before every season in life.Sometimes, there needs to be a “first”before certain situations.Even friendships and relationships.
Oratio-Dear Father,help me to put You first.Always.Help me to stop making things idols in my life.And please help me learn self-discipline.Thankyou for Your grace and mercy Father.I Love You.And I trust that when I fail in the future that I learn from it.In Jesus name I pray.Amen.
Contemplatio
Ashley
Oct 5th, 2009
Lectio: Inky blackness
Meditatio: There is something inside everyone that could use fixing in our lives. I scense that God is saying the thing that needs to be fixed is a blackness its where we have inked or blotted that spot of our life away from him. We have forgotten that God wants all of us and that means that blotted blackness that we have hidden. God knows everything and he knows that black spot and he says give it to me and I will help you.
Oratio: God, There is I admit a inky blackness in my life and you showed me that I need to give it to you and turn it to you. I will say right now I give that to you and let you take that blackness and put something wounderful there. I know that I should be coming to you about everything and I havent so I am going to admit that spot is yours take it and make me clean. In Jesus name I pray Amen.
Contemplatio: All I can say right now God is speaking to me and its blowing my mind.
millie
Oct 12th, 2009
lectio: bottomless
Meditatio: “I am a mystery, I am a locked room in a tall tower.” God is so bottomless. The things of God never end, the character of God never ends. You can walk closely with God for your whole life, and stil only get a fraction of Him.
Oratio: God, plase begin to reveal the deep rivers of your character to me, to us. Help me to dig deep into who you are. Please begin to dig tour fingers deep into who I am and pull back all of what I am so you can pour who you are into me.
Contemplatio: