“I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes.”
Psalm 119:99
Think of meditation as a practice of alignment with God.
Your meditation is a search, a plea even to be taken to ‘another place’ even while still physically in one place. A true believer wants to go to that place, that realm, that state, where everything is clearer, where every sign is visible, where every movement is felt.
Friend, can you imagine the renewal of mind that takes place in this greater realm?
King David attested to that in the scripture above, confessing that he found wisdom and truth even greater than that of all his teachers by meditating on the Word of God for himself.
And if we are still un-convinced by the power of meditation, let’s examine the life of meditation that Christ our Savior lived?
HE was on a mission. HE had a purpose. HE was to save the world through crucifixion. But on His way to that cross, the journey of His life mirrored that of a meditating man.
And how wonderful is it that the Son of Man then became the mediator between God and mankind. It says in 1 Timothy chpt 2 vs 5, that
there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.”
Even our Great mediator lived in meditation.
Why shouldn’t we?
Our alignment with the Spirit comes through meditating on the Word of God, who in His sovereign wisdom imparted that Spirit on you and I.
So if not for the discipline that becomes of character by the practice alone, consider the other gains of meditation.
The fruits of the spirit flows through meditation. Love, patience, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. We need every last one of these fruits in our lives.
Friend, I urge you today to be mediated by meditation. God’s Word is all we have that is unchangeable and un-shakeable, and the purpose on your life depends on HIS Word.
I pray today that we are convicted by the Holy Spirit to seek after the One who knows our beginning, middle, and end. May we be elevated yet again to meditate on the sweet Word of the Most High God and be equipped to stand firm on it when all that is shakeable begins to shake in Jesus name. Amen.
