Scripture Meditation: Martin Luther on Meditating on the Psalms

Martin Luther (d. 1546) described his own method of Scripture meditation in a letter to his barber, Peter Beskendorf, titled "A Simple Way to Pray." For each text, Luther recommended a fourfold approach: "I take each commandment, first as a teaching, to consider what God requires of me; second, as a thanksgiving, to consider what God has given me; third, as a confession, to consider where I have fallen short; fourth, as a prayer, to ask God for what I need."…