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A 19-minute guided audio meditation with Job 11:8-9 and Ephesians 3:17-19, using Lectio Divina.

I came to this text hoping to bring you a meditation on the depths of the love of God (Eph 3:18-19), but as I sat with a handful of translations, Greek words and Hebrew references, I was taken more mystically into the presence of God than I had imagined going.

I have knit a few verses together here (Job 11:8-9 and Eph 3:17-19), pulling from various translations and expanded Greek definitions, mixing the words from Ephesians into combinations that spoke most vividly to me. Please note that while I feel that I have been very faithful to the text, I am not a biblical scholar and this is not an authorised translation.

The words I have gathered from the NRSV, the Orthodox Jewish Bible and the Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament (at biblegateway.com) for this meditation are here:

Job 11:8-9

Can you find out the deep things of God… Can you find the limit of the Almighty?

It is higher than the heaven. What can you do?

Deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.

Ephesians 3:17-19

I pray that Christ may inhabit, make his dwelling place in your heart.

I pray that you, being rooted and grounded in (agape) love,

may be empowered to grasp

the height and depth, the length and breadth…

and have knowledge of the Love of Christ, this Love which surpasses knowledge

that you might be filled, fully pervaded, with the fullness, the plentitude, of God.

Please note that I read the above text three times in this meditation, rather than the usual two.

I hope that this meditation transports you in the way that it has transported me, but more than that, however you find your prayer today, may the Lord accomplish the Spirit’s intentions through your faithfulness to prayer.

BLESSINGS and much love!!

Lissy

Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God’s love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina.

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