Winter (Spring) Break Activities – Part 2

Activity for Week 1 – Meditation and Contemplation of the “I AM” statements of Jesus

Spend 15 minutes each day reading, praying, meditating, and contemplating on the I AM statement and question for the DAY.  Several times during the day too, offer the statement to God and whenever you get a chance think about it. The statements are easily memorized.

DAY 1:

“I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.” John 6: 35

Is Jesus the Bread of my life?

DAY 2:

“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” John 8: 12

Do I live by his Light?

DAY 3:

“I am the gate.  Whoever enters by me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture.” John 10: 7, 9

Do I enter through him as the Gate to salvation, or do I keep trying to rescue myself?

DAY 4:

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” John 10: 11 ; “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me” John 10: 14

Do I trust him to Shepherd me?

DAY 5:

“I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” John 11: 25-26

Do I depend on his Resurrection or do I keep trying to lift myself up?

DAY 6:

“I am the way and the truth and the life.” John 14: 6

Do I let him be the Way for me or do I keep asking for directions? Is he the Truth by which I judge all other lesser truths? Is he my Life or do I engage in career, entertainments, and posessions to give me life?

DAY 7:

“I am the vine, you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15: 5

Do I abide in him, cling to him as a branch to a Vine, and draw all my spiritual nourishment from him?

Source: The Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible, NRSV.

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