Meditating On God’s Word

What do you spend time day dreaming about? What do you find yourself spending most of your time thinking about, considering, and taking pleasure in pondering?

We tend to ruminate over those parts of our lives that we are passionate about and value. We savor the delicacies in our lives.

A lion will growl in delight after having captured its prey. This is similar to the satisfaction and contentment of a purring kitten. We may use the word murmur—uttering words softly to ourselves. This is where we get our word and concept of meditation, or contemplation. Like a cow chewing it’s cud.

As followers of Jesus, we are called to mediate on God and his word. We are to contemplate God’s word. We are to murmur God’s word. We are to ruminate over God’s word and savor God’s word. We are to chew on God’s word and growl over the word of God.

The Psalmist writes, “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.” (Psalm 1:1-2, ESV).

We are to live out our lives in the counsel of the wise and Godly. We are called to meditate on God and his word day and night.

When we marinate in God’s word, we are “like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that we do, we prosper. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.” (Psalm 1:1-4, ESV).

May we find the satisfaction and fruitfulness of meditating on God and his word day and night.

In Christ alone, Robbie

A Prayer Before The Reading Of Scripture: “Blessed Lord, who caused all Holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and the comfort of your Holy Word we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (#101, Book of Common Prayer, 2019).

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