Depending on how we develop spiritually, the focus of our prayer will gradually shift to different parts of the election. Basically, there will always be all stages, but gradually we will go through the stages:
Reflective – when will meditation take the most time, and it will be the focus of our prayer:
Meditative – when meditation gradually recedes into the background, and the experience of meditation gets to the center.
Contemplative – when everything ends in the silent and silent communion of man in God.
How to proceed here, Lectio Divina
Reading
Meditation-reason
Meditation – emotions
Contemplation-looking at God…
In the beginning, we are not interested in God’s views but rather disturb them. Instead, we wonder if we can convince God of our views and how we can do it so that God will fulfill our ideas and desires. Then comes the time when we will become interested in God’s will. We begin to experience fellowship with God. Slowly transition to silent rest in God. Eventually, God will penetrate us, and we will rest in Him.
Contemplation becomes dominant and fills most of the time of prayer. It is the silent rest of the beloved in the loving. The genius of the Lectio Divina system lies precisely in the fact that it can adapt very flexibly to the spiritual level of what it uses for its spiritual growth. God, us despite our sinfulness. Later, when our relationship with God is already firmly entrenched, meditation changes its content. We focus more on learning about Jesus’ thoughts and attitudes. Meditation is a powerful tool for making this thinking of Jesus also our own inner attitude and conviction.