Many don’t understand what meditation means. When we meditate on something, we are simply focusing our thoughts.
“Surprisingly, if you know how to worry, you already know how to meditate on the Word of God. Worry is when you take a negative thought and think on it over and over and over. When you take a passage of Scripture and think on it over and over and over, that’s called meditation.” – Rick Warren
Meditation helps us to focus on the Word of God.
Psalm 119:15 (AMPC) I will meditate on Your precepts and have respect to Your ways [the paths of life marked out by Your law].
When we meditate on the Word of God, we seek to understand how God is speaking: about himself, about our world, and about our own hearts.
Psalm 119:27 (AMP) Make me understand the way of Your precepts, So that I will meditate (focus my thoughts) on Your wonderful works.
When we meditate on Scripture, we do so to remember all that God has done.
Psalm 143:5 (AMP) I remember the days of old; I meditate on all that You have done; I ponder the work of Your hands.
Once we have meditated to focus, understand, and remember, we will find our hearts inclined to worship!
Psalm 1:2 (AMP) But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And on His law [His precepts and teachings] he [habitually] meditates day and night.
Finally, we meditate to apply. Once we understand, we have to apply the Word of God.
Joshua 1:8 (AMP) This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall read [and meditate on] it day and night, so that you may be careful to do [everything] in accordance with all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will be successful.
The more you read the Bible; and the more you meditate on it, the more you will be astonished with it. – Charles Spurgeon
As you read, frequently pause to meditate on the meaning of what you are reading. Absorb the Word into your system by dwelling on it, pondering it, going over it again and again in your mind, and considering it from many different angles until it becomes part of you. – Nancy Leigh DeMoss
I conclude with: “If you have a Bible falling apart, you’ll have a life that’s not.” – Adrian Rogers