Meditation

“Oh, how love I Your law! It is my meditation all the day. You, through Your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies; For they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my meditation.” Psalm 119:97

What is biblical meditation?

It is not getting into a yoga position, chanting meaningless syllables until your mind is emptied of all sensibility and you mystically become one with the universe, absorbed into god and become a god yourself.

It is not problem-solving, such as how you are going to route a holiday trip to cover all the relatives, or how you are going to make the checking account last until the end of the month.

I submit that one form of biblical meditation is taking a matter, a concept, and turning it over and over in your mind, bringing biblical passages to bear, searching for meaning and connections which are not immediately present.


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