WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO MEDITATE ON GOD AND WHAT
ARE THE RESULTS?
The double slit experiment
in Quantum Mechanics has shown that a photon of light existing in a wave form
changes into a particle form when observed.
In the same way, the Lord
tries to get His messages to us. But they can be floating around, waving at us
for days, even weeks and we don’t even know they are there. To get those
messages from a wave, to a particle of concrete truth, we need to be able to
observe the message. But how?
The answer
is Meditation. Lots of Christians will balk at this answer, but remember,
the Bible is an Eastern book. It was written in a culture where meditation was
common practice. Though most people associate meditation with Hinduism or
Buddhism, it’s just as much a Christian thing.
The dictionary defines “meditation” as “to think about,
contemplate; reflect; ponder.” When the angel came to Mary to announce God’s
words to her, Luke 2:19 tells us: “Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in
her heart.” The word “ponder” is one of the words that describes what it means
to meditate, and ponder is defined: “to weigh in one’s mind, to consider
carefully; to think deeply about.”
We will be able to capture
more of those messages from our Lord if we will make the time to meditate. It
doesn’t have to be a long period of time and we don’t have to get in a certain
bodily position, wear special clothes or have special music going.
These things may or may
not help to get us to a place of quiet thinking, depending on our different
personalities.
The main thing is JUST DO
IT. Even if we take only 5 minutes at the beginning or end of the day or even
on a break in the middle of the day.
Genesis 24:63 tells us “Isaac went out to meditate in the
field at the eventide.” Eventide is early evening.
Psalm
119:148 tells us David meditated morning and night: “My eyes anticipate the
night watches and I awake before the call of the watchman, That I may
meditate on Your word.”
Notice in
this scripture David also tells us what he is meditating on: God’s Word. I
don’t think he had a scroll out there with him, so he was probably thinking
deeply about, and reflecting on the scriptures he knew by memory. We have a
written Bible available to us, but either way would be a good way to meditate.
We can also meditate on
the work of God or the Lord Jesus Christ. How has He been working in your life
lately? How has He worked before? How do we see Him working in the Bible? Psalm
77:12 says, “I will meditate also
of all thy work.”
Joshua
1:8a tells us “Thou shalt meditate therein day
and night, that thou mayest observe to do.”
There’s
three things going on here. First Joshua is to meditate. By reflecting upon, weighing
it in his mind, and thoughtfully contemplating the words of God, he is making
himself observe. In prayerful meditation, a person can read a verse or section
from the Bible and be shown by the Lord the message He wants us to get. Then
once Joshua observes the message, he is to do it.
That’s
the goal for all of us: Meditate on the scripture, think about it, ponder it.
Then we will catch what the Lord wants us to observe. We stop the fleeting wave
and it becomes a particle. Then we do it, we apply it.
We want
to grab those important messages the Lord is telling us, so let’s be like David:
“I will meditate in thy precepts, and
have respect unto thy ways” (Ps 119:15).
Look at
what the end of the verse in Joshua 1:8b says: “For then thou shalt make thy
way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.” What successes does God
have for you in 2024? The Lord will individually show us what He has in mind,
so we stay strong and continue to seek Him in everything we think and do.
Love,
Carolyn
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