MEDITATION
Hebrew: murmur, ponder, imagine, mutter, speak, study, talk, utter, converse
(with oneself, and hence aloud), declare, pray.
Greek: revolve in the mind, imagine, look out for, take thought, the practice of
reflection or contemplation. (Ps 1:1-3, Ps 19:14)
Meditation works both ways; good and bad.
Abraham meditated about what God told him to do concerning the sacrificing of
Isaac, and believed that God could raise him up even from the dead, so he was
willing to do what God asked him without reservations. (Gen 22:1-18, Heb 11:17-
19)
10 of the 12 spies meditated about the negative and did not consider what God
could do as they spied out the land (Num 13:17, 27-33).
Joshua was instructed to meditate on the Book of the Law for the purpose of
obeying all that was written in it (Josh 1:8).
In Luke 21:14, Jesus instructed His disciples not to meditate beforehand in
answering their adversaries when the end of the age comes. The word may be
understood in this passage as the idea of preparing a defense for a court
appearance.
Paul, in I Tim 4:12-16, urged Timothy to meditate, or take pains with, the
instructions he gives. The idea of meditation is also found in Phil 4:6-8, taking
your focus off the anxiety and meditating of the Word. In Col 3:1-2 we meditate
on where we are in Christ.
Meditation is a lost art for many Christians, but the practice needs to be cultivated
again.
What are you meditating on?
If we meditate on the Lord’s Prayer ‘Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth
as it is in heaven.’ We see that:
There is no sickness in heaven.
There is no lack in heaven.
There is no sorrow in heaven.
Ps 23 and 91 brings peace to all that meditate on them.
The importance is to see our position in Ps 23 claim The Lord as your shepherd
as we yield ourselves to Him, in Ps 91 we need to abide, stay in God’s Word.
We limit God when we meditate on what we can’t do instead of what God can do.
Ps 27:13
Ps 63:6-7
Ps 77:11-12
Ps 119:15, 23, 48, 78, 97, 99, 148, Ps 143:5
God has spoken something into your heart, meditate on it and see the glory of
God, for it is written “it shall come to pass”.
Remember Prov 23:7
God had to confuse their language in Gen 11:1-7 because of what they
meditated on.