God’s Engraving – Lectio Divina

I will put my instructions within them

and engrave them on their hearts.

I will be their God,

and they will be my people.

Jeremiah 31: 33 (CEB)

Will it hurt, Lord?

When you engrave my heart?

Engraving implies a deep insertion of your word.

Heart surgery is always serious and risky.

I will be vulnerable.

I will be transformed.

To engrave means to carve into a hard object.

Forgive my closed heart.

Soften my dense inner world.

Chisel my false casing and scrape off the dead shell covering my spirit.

May I be more like soften clay in an Artist hand than concrete.

I hear your soothing promise to be my God.

My heart melts at the invitation to be your people.

When I turn to you, my fear is gone.

There is comfort and peace within your promise.

Pour your wisdom and instruction within me, Lord.

I stand before you, Great Engraver – open to receive and unmasked in your presence.