Why do we write weekly Bible Meditation/ reflection?

Someone might ask, "Why do we ask students to write Bible meditation and reflection?"

Augustine who influenced profoundly on

• the theology of medieval, reformation and counter reformation
• our understanding of the original sin and God's grace
• our understanding of Christianity and its relationship with classical Greek world
• our understanding of God (IMHO, Augustine is one who wrote more than anyone else in the history and his books benefited everyone .)
  

said why he wrote so many Bible meditations like this:

I am a "man who writes as he progresses and who progresses as he writes". (Epistulae, 144)

Augustine is the one who emphasized salvation by God's grace only. Meditation is not another work. Basically we write to learn and learn to write.

As we look at the word of God and do daily/weekly mediation, we grow and as we grow our relationship gets deeper. Our aim is to write out of our gratitude for what God has done through his Son. In our meditation we need God's help here. We can meditate and grow in his word. (Psalm 1)

Happy Bible meditation by God's grace.

(A good resource is Augustine is by Henry Chadwick. Augustine -a very short introduction, Oxford Press.)