torah

Opening Prayer: Saving God, you set your heart on us and made us your own.  May we listen with the ear of our hearts to the many ways your Word and your love will be present to us and formed in us this day.  We ask this through Jesus, the Word made flesh.  Amen.  (The Work of God ed. by Judith Sutera)

Scripture: Hebrews 4:12-13

Journal: Is the word of God active in your life these days?  Why or why not?  How?  How has God’s word penetrated you lately?  What was the effect?

Reflection: Torah (Law) is God’s words that hit the target of the human condition.  The noun torah comes from the verb, yarah, that means to throw something, a javelin, say, so that it hits its mark.  The word that hits its mark is torah.  In living speech, words are javelins hurled from one mind into another.  Not all words are javelins; some are only tin cans, carrying information from one place to another.  But God’s word has this aimed, intentional, personal nature.  When we are spoken to in this way, piercingly and penetratingly, we are not the same.  These words get inside us and work their meaning in us. (Answering God by Eugene Peterson)

Prayer

Closing Prayer: O Lord, Thou didst strike my heart with Thy Word and I loved Thee. ~St. Augustine