Lectio Divina from the Jesse TreeLITTLE BOYS – Day 13 👦& 14 🎋1 Samuel 3:1-21; 16:1-13 “Not yet.” How often I have heard it spoken of the youth, “You’re not ready. You’re too young.” And yet, here is little Samuel, in the care of the elder Eli, sleeping in the same room with God “when […]
Lectio Divina from the Jesse Tree RUTH & NAOMI – Day 12 🌾 Ruth 1:1-8 “A Man from Bethlehem left home with his wife.” There’s a saying that ‘mama doesn’t know what mama doesn’t know, until she knows it.’ I don’t think I fully began to understand the beauty of Ruth and Naomi’s relationship until […]
Lectio Divina from the Jesse Tree LAWS & WALLS – Day 10 🪨& 11 📯 Exodus 19:1-11; 20:1-17; Joshua 6:1-20 “I am speaking to you now from a dense cloud…so that the people will be faithful to you.” When the Israelites encamped at Mt. Sinai for the first time, the glory of God was concealed […]
Lectio Divina from the Jesse TreeMOSES & MANNA – Day 8 🔥 & 9 🥖Exodus 2:23-3:17; 16:1-15,35 “The angel…appeared…as fire.” In the Psalms (104:4) and later in a letter to the Hebrews, we are reminded how “he makes his messengers winds, and his servants flames of fire.” In this world, we’ve become so accustomed to […]
Lectio Divina from the Jesse TreeJOSEPH SAVES ISREAL – Day 7 coat of many colors 🌎Genesis 37:2-28; 45:3-8 “They hated him so much, they could not say a kind word to him.” Perhaps you remember the story of Joseph’s Coat of Many Colors or the technicolor play that made it famous or how much he […]