Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“So they read from the book, from the law of God, with interpretation. They gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.”
NL Daily Devotion for Friday, December 13, 2024
by R. M. Fergus, Clergy Stuff
Scripture is a living, breathing thing. It’s not like it was written down, accepted into canon and frozen in time forever. The Holy Spirit lives and moves through the interpretation of the Bible in community. Even the original recipients of God’s law, who still lived in the same society and spoke the same language, required interpretation by their leaders in order to understand it. How much more so do we, far removed in culture and language, need to interpret scripture in light of who and how we are now?
Bottom line: read the Bible with other people. Invite the Holy Spirit into the conversation. Listen to others’ experiences in encountering God’s word in their actual lives. And be open to the idea that the enduring and eternal truth the bible holds may not be what you think it is.
Gracious God, encourage me to invite others into conversation so that I might get a better sense of what your holy scriptures might be saying to me here and now. Amen.
