While this kind of comment may be true or not yet it certainly renders the event more vivid and human. There are many ways then of engaging in lectio divina for the Christian believer and Lent is the time of the year when special attention to this practice is particularly appropriate and fruitful. The habits formed from such attentive and meditative reading will serve us well throughout our lives provided we are faithful to this exercise and strive to sharpen the tools we employ in performing it. Attention to the specific words of a text and a careful study of them is one of the more important secrets of fruitful reading. In St. John's Gospel there are various passages that hint at the reasons for this kind of meditative study of the inspired words.
Some words have the power of life or of death.
May we carefully choose the words we allow in our hearts and take upon our lips, for our words too possess a power to enhance or diminish life. During this Lent in our reading and lectio divina, may we fill our memory, our mind and our hearts with the words of Jesus and of his true followers. In this way we shall prepare ourselves for that true life that he won for us by his resurrection and ascension into the glory of the Father.