Philippians Chapter 2: Paragraph 7
Posted on 18. Oct, 2009 by Jeremy in Meditation
Philippians 2:19-24 “I plan (according to Jesus’ plan) to send Timothy to you very soon so he can bring back all the news of you he can gather. Oh, how that will do my heart good! I have no one quite like Timothy. He is loyal, and genuinely concerned for you. Most people around here are looking out for themselves, with little concern for the things of Jesus. But you know yourselves that Timothy’s the real thing. He’s been a devoted son to me as together we’ve delivered the Message. As soon as I see how things are going to fall out for me here, I plan to send him off. And then I’m hoping and praying to be right on his heels.”
Lectio: 5
Meditatio: 5
Oratio: 5
Contemplatio: 5
Jesse
Oct 18th, 2009
Lectio: Praying
Meditatio: Why do we pray? for comfort, security, when we are in need how about for a destination almost, searching for something greater and deeper than ourselves sometimes we pray self consciously what if God doesn’t care, or why am i doing this? i have no “earthly” idea of this spiritual communication. Yet many people, even none believers pray, That really confuses me i wish i knew why. My dad always used to say I really cant see why you guys watch TV or hang out and sleep all day but you cant pray for more than 5 minutes” that’s really more embarrassing now that i think about it, But the great thing about our father he loves us all the same! no one is loved more we cant compete for his love because no matter what he constantly showers us with love, we may turn our backs on him but he is right there saying i love you we can search for love in all the wrong places but God says come to me i love and accept you for EXACTLY who you are not for what people see on the inside but i see the very core of who you are meant to be.
Oratio: God open the floodgates of heaven and shower us with your love, comfort those who don’t feel loved and accepted show them there is no greater love than the love of christ.
Contemplatio: relieved, accepted
Brack
Oct 18th, 2009
lectio: real
meditatio: Growth is what we all aim for in our relationship with God. We dig and we fight and we wrestle and we growl in prayer and in battles with our most hated enemy. This battle is real, and time is ticking. We need deepness in our relationships, we need warriors that are up for it. We need listeners to hear what’s being told in whispers. We need God. Distraction has taken control, shallowness has taken control. Our culture does us no good, it doesn’t even understand the word deepness and its definition of God is money, fame, love, hate, and things that end up leading us to failure. But searching and fighting on our hands and knees our growth will proceed. We come to see God from the inside out and we see God’s mysteries and the core of the core of who God REALLY is… this battle of acceptance and fear and indecisiveness is real, I’m digging, I’m wrestling, I’m fighting for my soul but God is on his throne revealing who He says He really is.
Oratio:Father, make me deep. Show me what true deep relationships are. I’m in this battle, this real battle to fight for my family and my brothers and sisters. God i want to hear your whispers, I urge to know your plan for me. I want seek after you in ways i’ve never imagined. I want to win this battle, I will win this battle.
Contemplatio: powerful
Madi
Oct 19th, 2009
Lectio: My heart
Meditatio: God has captured my heart. I just can’t explain it. His love has shown me things that I need to change. He is letting things click in my mind and heart of things that I’m doing wrong,but its not in a condemning way. He is doing this in such a loving way that it makes me run harder after Him! It makes my love grow deeper for Him. I love Him more and more every day! God has captured my heart!!!
Oratio: God, I love you! I am so happy that our love and relationship is growing deeper! Let your love for me overflow where I have to share it! God, let people see that you live in me through my actions. I love you God, you are so awesome! Amen.
Contemplatio: purpose
kim
Oct 22nd, 2009
Lectio: Timothy
Meditatio: I love this passage – it may be one of my favorites in all scripture. I can hear/feel the emotion in Paul’s voice as he says Timothy’s name, asserts his confidence in him.
Hearing this passage brings memories to mind. I think of my friends from college, most of whom had the great privilege of being somebody’s Timothy. My friends from Carrollton and Augusta and St. Simons Island all flourished in discipling relationships with spiritual fathers and mothers, adults who poured all they had into them, confidently.
I did not have such directly, I looked, but there seemed no adults to take me up. But I did benefit, second hand, from the efforts and hearts of those fathers and mothers. The sons and daughters that they poured into, those with the revelation of such in Christ, took me up and transferred to me, in word and action, sonship. I began to see that God is making us not into servants or slaves only, though rightly we are, but into sons and daughters, joint heirs of the privileges and responsibilities of the Kingdom.
I got it. I am still daily endeavoring to walk it out, let it stretch me farther out into the image and extension of Christ and His way in the earth.
I know what many, many of you have with Jeremy…it’s well beyond (“I love my youth Pastor, he is a great guy”). I see what is there- your faithfulness toward him, his confidence in you. It is no small thing. It is something that is God born and man watered. I know what is being poured in: knowledge and understanding but more so, trust and confidence.
Those who embrace a Paul’s calling to them: the discipline, the responsibility, the trust, become Timothy’s – young men and women who become the people and do the things others only dream of.
Timothy was not Paul’s natural son. His name is mentioned in scripture ony in the company of women – his mother and grandmother. His education, unlike Paul’s, is never mentioned, he seems self (and Paul) taught. But he, this adopted spiritual son, goes on to be the leader of the church in his generation.
None of my friends from college came from families’ who pastored or worked in Kingdom capacities. None. It was not our parents expectation that we would be leaders in God’s kingdom.
But it was God’s.
Oratio: God, show me how to confidently pour out all You have poured into me. Your Kingdom come.
Comtemplatio: confidence
kacey
Oct 24th, 2009
Lectio : plan
Meditatio : I don’t spend too much time planning something. I usually jump straight into something without a thought about what could happen. It sometimes leads me into getting in trouble. I need to stop going straight forward and just need to learn to sit down and think about my choices.
Oratio : Lord, please grant me the paitence to make good decisions and to stay on your path of goodness.
Contemplatio: stillness.
Sylvie
Nov 20th, 2009
some of these have really spoken to me. and thank you for sharing. it puts a whole new view on the way i perceive things now. thank you :]