Steves thoughts for the group

Today in my group we talked about reading our bibles, when we should do it and how we should do it. I’m starting to find reading in the mornings is becoming harder. And the same for reading at nights. My new plan is working out well though. My plan is, just read a little bit whenever I can throughout the day. It’s good when you think about it like eating food, you need a few good portions throughout the day, and maybe a few snacks. So maybe a good time of prayer at a certain point throughout the day can be my snack. I took that thought a bit farther. Sometimes we treat ourselves to deserts. Well how about replacing deserts with another discipline like meditating every now and then, or even fasting.
We talked about the dangers of going through our days without prayer. We concluded it is a scary thing. Going through your day without prayer is a car that is driving without lubricant. That was our analogy. I don’t really know the whole science about a car driving without lubricant for a day, but I have gone days when I haven’t prayed. Who I am doesn’t change, I still like helping people, and I still love my neighbour as myself. So it is still manageable. It’s stupid to go without prayer, but it’s not like you’re going to turn into a sinner, or the antichrist or anything. I think prayer just helps you walk closer with God
I tried to write my own lament psalm for the first time a while ago, and it went pretty well because instead of my mind going everywhere in my thoughts, at had to put some focus on what I was writing. It turned out good because I have been doing it successfully for few weeks. It’s not always a lament psalm, sometimes it’s a thanksgiving psalm, or another one.
I wanted to address the comment we had in class about why we always do musical worship in church instead of other kinds of worship. My thoughts are, I think musical worship should definitely be part of our church service because that is the time we return our praises to God. I’m not saying that we don’t praise God when we are doing our homework, or eating lunch together. But we don’t verbally say how we love God when we do that stuff. Our bodies may say that, but our words don’t. I know that its extremely important to say that we love God with our actions, but I think neglecting saying that with our words is dangerous. Our words are important too. There is power in our words. When God created the world, he actually said “let there be light”. It’s obvious that there is some value in our words. I don’t know if that’s a good example but I still think the idea of using more than just our actions should be addressed.