Aug 28, 2022
468 A Shadow of Good Things to Come, A Guided Christian Meditation on Hebrews 10:1-4 with the Recenter With Christ app
I'm Chaplain Jared and I work as a hospice chaplain and an ICU chaplain. My purpose in making this podcast is to help you find more peace in your life and to be more open for your heart to be changed by the Spirit of God. By using centuries old form of Christian Meditation named Lectio Divina:
Outline: Relaxation, Reading, Meditation, Prayer, Contemplation and Visualization.
Get into a place where you can sit comfortably and uninterrupted
for about 20 minutes.You should hopefully not be driving or
anything tensing or unrelaxing. If you feel comfortable to do
so, I invite you to close your eyes.
Guided Relaxation / Guided Meditation:
Breathe and direct your thoughts to connecting with God. Let your
stomach be a balloon inflate, deflate.
Bible verses for Meditation:
NIV
Hebrews 10:1-4
1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not
the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same
sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those
who draw near to worship. 2 Otherwise, would they not have stopped
being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for
all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. 3 But
those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. 4 It is impossible
for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
NKJV
10 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not
the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices,
which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach
perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For
the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness
of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins
every year. 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and
goats could take away sins.
Meditation:
During the Old Testament times animal sacrifice was a major part of the worship of the one true God. It was a recognition of the people’s need for God. The Law of Moses, which came from God, commanded it. Yet even as God laid out that plan there was a plan to replace animal sacrifice with the true sacrifice of Christ.
Recently I have been thinking about changes and new things. That brought me to this scripture. The Law then was pointing to something much greater. It pointed to a relationship with the Messiah, with Jesus Christ who will build us perfectly as our hearts are changed.
Whatever relationship you have with God, it is only a shadow of the beauty to come. We won’t understand that until we see what He makes of us. When we die and our bodies are perfectly restored and reunited with loved ones and Christ. Only then will we truly understand what good things he spoke of.
Meditation of Prayer:
Pray as directed by the Spirit.
Dedicate these moments to the patient waiting, when you feel ready ask God for understanding you desire from Him.
Meditation of God and His Glory / Hesychasm:
I invite you to sit in silence feeling patient for your own faults and trials.
Summarize what insights you have gained during this meditation and meditate and visualize positive change in your life:
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Updates:
Final Question: How can you live consistent with the cleansing power God offers you?
This week I performed a funeral for a family from Africa. The amount of family that was physically present was not that large but there were many friends who were just as close as family in some ways and their presence and comfort was amazing.
Final Thought:
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