Letting the Bible read us

Greg Taylor recently shared some challenging ideas about reading the Bible:

In Spiritual formation, we're moving from reading the Bible to the Bible reading us. Yes, the Bible reading us. We don't stand above Scripture, shaping it to our image, but we are read by Scripture, undone by it, being shaped into the image of Christ by it. That's part of Spiritual formation.

I like that concept of the Scripture reading us. There's a certain danger in having the Word of God between book covers--something we hold in our hand, carry with us or leave behind us as we choose. The more we read the Bible the more we're tempted, I believe, to feel we have mastered the Scriptures. In reality, we won't get anywhere until we allow the Word to master us.