How we read matters!

“We read scriptures selfishly instead of in prayerfully meeting God there. We want our pills from it, but not the medicine of true transformational encounter, which comes by prayerful reading.
Reading as encounter with God, not just information gathering. We read for us, not to encounter Him. True reading is prayer.” Eugene Peterson.
“But the Bible is not primarily a source of information; it is one of the primary ways God uses to speak to us! Bible reading is prayed reading.”
Are we reading well?! Nice thoughts from this wise elder today, on how to read in a living way!
Read less for information, and more for spiritual formation! That is, meet The Word through the word! Read as a tabernacle of meeting, and so being transformed! Prayerful reading, you might call it!