A Meditation: For To Us

I believe one of the most helpful spiritual practices is biblical meditation. Thinking, contemplating, considering, mulling over the word of God is vital to our spirituality.

One of the easiest ways to meditate on Scripture is to take a verse and consider the words bit by bit. For example, if we take the beginning of John 3:16, we can meditate our way through it.

“For God so loved the world”—we can think of the motivation of God to send his Son or the historical surety of the whole event. “For God so loved the world…”—we think about God, his character, his attributes, his mercy.

Let’s meditate on a classic Christmas text. Isaiah 9:6.

For to us a child is born, 
to us a son is given
— Isaiah 9:6

We've probably heard it, read it, and zipped past it every December more times than we could count. But I would like to draw our attention to this verse one more time. Not even the whole verse, just a few of the words, ones we probably haven't meditated on enough this Advent.

Meditate: For to. 

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