Written by Eugene Peterson (1932-2018), a minister, scholar, theologian, author, and poet. This is an excerpt from his book “Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading.”
Holy Scripture is a. . . fenced-in acreage of words and sentences of many different sorts and kinds, but all of them integral to the work that is being done, working in long, steady rhythms in which we, the readers, participate but don’t control. We meditatively enter this world of words and give obedient and glad assent. We submit our lives to this text that is “endlessly bringing together / heaven and earth.
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. [2 Timothy 3:16-17]
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