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"Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day." Psalm 119:97 NKJV
Bible meditation is different from meditation as we know it in our society. Meditation, as popularly taught by the Eastern philosophies, tells you to empty your mind. That's the exact opposite of what the Scriptures say! Bible meditation means filling your mind with the truth God has revealed. David was a king. Imagine the pressures and problems, demands and decisions he faced each day. Yet he said, "Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day." Have you observed that we waste an awful lot of time doing mundane things such as holding on the phone, waiting in line, driving to work? In big cities, people often spend an hour or more going to work, and the same coming home. That's ten hours a week. Forty hours a month. Four hundred eighty hours a year. That's an extraordinary amount of time! The question is, what are you doing with your mind during this time? Just driving along with your mind in neutral? Or listening to the radio or a CD or music on your smartphone? Or getting angry at all the drivers around you? What a great time to get your mind in gear! What an opportunity to grow spiritually and mentally! "What exercise does for your body, meditation does for your soul. The Bible says, "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7 NKJV). A sign on someone's office wall read: "You are not what you think you are. But what you think--you are!" If you want your life to be different, start thinking different thoughts; meditate on God's Word!
This message taken from: Daily Devotional - The Word For You Today
Bible meditation is different from meditation as we know it in our society. Meditation, as popularly taught by the Eastern philosophies, tells you to empty your mind. That's the exact opposite of what the Scriptures say! Bible meditation means filling your mind with the truth God has revealed. David was a king. Imagine the pressures and problems, demands and decisions he faced each day. Yet he said, "Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day." Have you observed that we waste an awful lot of time doing mundane things such as holding on the phone, waiting in line, driving to work? In big cities, people often spend an hour or more going to work, and the same coming home. That's ten hours a week. Forty hours a month. Four hundred eighty hours a year. That's an extraordinary amount of time! The question is, what are you doing with your mind during this time? Just driving along with your mind in neutral? Or listening to the radio or a CD or music on your smartphone? Or getting angry at all the drivers around you? What a great time to get your mind in gear! What an opportunity to grow spiritually and mentally! "What exercise does for your body, meditation does for your soul. The Bible says, "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7 NKJV). A sign on someone's office wall read: "You are not what you think you are. But what you think--you are!" If you want your life to be different, start thinking different thoughts; meditate on God's Word!
This message taken from: Daily Devotional - The Word For You Today
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