meditate

  • The Context of Meditation

    A Prayer of the afflicted when he is weak and pours out his complaint before the Lord.  Psalm 102 NASB Complaint – You’re praying.  You feel oppressed and downtrodden.  You acknowledge your total dependency on God. You’re weak; He’s strong.  You kneel before Him—His servant, His child.  And you complain? Before we tackle the noun “complaint” we…

  • Night Moves

    When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches,  Psalm 63:6 NASB Remember/meditate – “Now I lay me down to sleep,” but it rarely happens so easily.  Nursery rhymes are wishful fables.  Sleep is far more difficult.  The room is dark.  The noise of the day is finished, but there are…

  • Growl and Moan

    This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success. Joshua 1:8 NASB Meditate –…

  • Known by Synonyms

    One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to meditate in His temple. Psalm 27:4 NASB Meditate – David wishes to complete two actions in the full…

  • Meditate

    Not reading Not reading and thinking Not reading, thinking and contemplating Rather meditation is offering It is offering back to God the Scripture He has given us As our part of the divine conversation This is God’s love story When we give back to Him the gift He has given We say, “Yes, Lord, I…