Today, I am going to be writting about a passage of scripture that I read last night using "Lectio". In class its hard for me to grasp the Lectio; because some of the works that we read are tough for me to dive into. So last night I tried it with the bible. The passage I read was Phillipians 4; the verse that stuck out the most was verse six. Basically what it says is be anxious for nothing, but in everything we do, go to the lord in prayer and he will hear us.

Be anxious for nothing! Thats huge, especially in this day in age when everything is happening so fast. But right there, God is just reminding us that we don't need to worry about a thing. There is nothing to powerful or too great that he can't handle. That kind of pumps me up.

When I got to the prayer part of the Lectio reading, God really showed me some areas in my life where I am too "anxious". Honestly, I never thought the Lectio would work, because it didn't really have an effect on me in class. I think maybe because its with such a big group. But in my quiet time it was very beneficial.

The other part of the passage that was huge for me was "in everything you do, go to the lord in prayer". I think so many times we think "oh thats stupid to pray for" or "this is too big for God". Well thats wrong! Theres no such thing as a stupid prayer, and there is absolutley nothing to big for God. He created us, whats makes us think he dosesn't have the power to answer a huge prayer. I fall short in this category alot. When things aren't going so good in my life I tend to just brush them under the rug, and totally avoid prayer. And on the opposite end of that, when things are going really well I lose sight of praying and thanking God for his blessings. Sometimes I even feel like im annoying God; which just sounds ridiculous.

The lectio reading really helped though. It made me stop and reflect on everything I read; maybe on a level I would never do if I was just reading something for the heck of it. It made me go deeper into the text and pull out stuff that wasn't really on the surface.