Meditating on God’s Word.
How I wish to have a great memory to memorize many Bible verses! but I do not, so I am just memorizing few verses:
Psalm 119
9How can a young man keep his way pure?
By guarding it according to your word.
10 With my whole heart I seek you;
let me not wander from your commandments!
11I have stored up your word in my heart,
that I might not sin against you.
12Blessed are you, O LORD;
teach me your statutes!
13With my lips I declare
all the rules of your mouth.
14In the way of your testimonies I delight
as much as in all riches.
15I will meditate on your precepts
and fix my eyes on your ways.
16I will delight in your statutes;
I will not forget your word.
It is God’s Word calling us to meditate on His perfect Word. In Psalm 1 we see the same calling…
1Blessed is the man
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2but his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
Meditate…what is this?
Living in a New Age world, where people talk a lot about meditation we need to define our terms.
John Piper says,
“…meditating on the Word of God day and night means to speak to yourself the Word of God day and night and to speak to yourself about it”
Meditating in the Word of God is not an exercise to find ourselves; it is what God expects us to do. It is not meant to look inside of us, but to look up to look at our Saviour, his greatness.
How dangerous the words can become…meditation….so beautiful and yet so deceptive. I have found many being deceived. They meditate on their past, on their future, they keep their eyes focused into an object…they even dare to say that they have a Bible verse as their “mantra.”
O, Lord, have mercy on me. Let me not wander from your commandments. Let me not be seduced by the devil disguised as an angel of light.
Biblical meditation…is not about being brave and finding who I am. The only mirror in which we should look to find who we really are, is the word of God. My heart is deceptive , the Word of God is always True.
Some say that through meditation we can find inner light but there is no inner light to lighten our paths…the light is the Word, the light is Jesus, the Word made flesh.
Jesus said (John 8:12)
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.
I really recommend this article, for further study on this topic.
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Becky, Thanks for the link to the meditation article…. Our postmodern culture makes my head swim (and you know how I must swim here in “mother earth” land) and I am grateful to authors who painstakingly pull it apart for analysis. I am also grateful for your blog site which lifts my heart, feeds my soul and stimulates my intellect.
God Bless your work!
Cecile