1 耶和華我們的主啊!你的名在全地是多麼威嚴,你把你的榮美彰顯在天上。
4 啊!人算甚麼,你竟記念他?世人算甚麼,你竟眷顧他?
5 你使他比天使(“天使”或譯:“ 神”)低微一點,卻賜給他榮耀尊貴作冠冕。
6 你叫他管理你手所造的,把萬物都放在他的腳下,
7 就是所有的牛羊、田間的走獸、
8 空中的飛鳥、海裡的魚,和海裡游行的水族。
9 耶和華我們的主啊!你的名在全地是多麼威嚴。
誦讀:以敞開的心緩慢,柔和地讀,小心地聆聽一字一句,細細體味誦讀的每一部分。注意哪些字、句的部分是今天特別為自己的。
默想:在誦讀中,如果發現某一字或某一句對自己有個別意義,就要對這字或句子反覆思想;可能是感動,欣慰,難過等等。
禱告:然後跟神說話。和神互動時,就像你與愛你、接納你的人交往一樣。告訴神你在默想時,在内心深處的自我覺察和發現。
安歇:最後,安歇在神的愛內;在愛我的神的臨在中,我歡愉地安歇著,無論是對話,或是我無言寂靜地安歇著(詩篇131:2)。
筆錄:將心中的思想,剛才的體驗,或是與神的禱告,記錄在「靈程筆記簿」上面。
另外讀經:使徒行傳2:14,22-33
彼得在五旬節的講道
1 LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory
in the heavens.
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?
5 You have made them a little lower than the angels
and crowned them with glory and honor.
6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their feet:
7 all flocks and herds,
and the animals of the wild,
8 the birds in the sky,
and the fish in the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas.
9 LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Read slowly and gently through the passage. Savor each portion of the reading, listening for the “still, small voice” of a word or phrase that somehow says, “I am for you today.”
TAKE in the word or phrase that touches you. Memorize it and slowly repeat it to yourself, allowing it to interact with your inner world of concerns, memories and ideas.
SPEAK to God. Interact with God as you would with one who loves and accepts you. And give to Him what you have discovered in reading and reflection.
REST in God. Rejoicing in the knowledge that God is with you in both words and silence, in spiritual activity and inner receptivity.
Journaling: Write down your experience, any thought, and/or prayer in the 2012 “Spiritual Journal” book.
Suggested Easter Week additional devotional reading: Acts 2:14, 22-33
Peter addresses the crowd at Pentecost