Sooo....a few weeks ago I asked God to teach me how to meditate. Meditation can have a bad rep, especially when it comes to how other religions go about it compared to how we as Christians should. It is not the same AT ALL! I didn't want to get the two confused in any way! I wanted clarity, I asked God to guide me in that area, to give me the knowledge on how to go about my meditation life with Him! I can tell you that it doesn't involve incense or candle burning, it doesn't involve crossing of the legs or any kind of deep breathing. Meditating on God doesn't involve any type of ritualistic behavior AT ALL! As a matter of fact, God wants us to stay away from those types of pagan rituals! Meditating on God simply means to sit in and recognize His presence in your life! It means to sit still and think about what He has done, and how He has kept you! Meditating on God means to realize what kind of force He has been throughout your years! To think over how God has rescued you out of all the bad situations that WE GET INTO OURSELVES! We are to think back on all things He as done, and invoke the spirit of gratefulness! We are to sit and quietly think on the goodness of Jesus! To thank Him for His unfailing love! We as Christians should take time out to sit and be still, to think about how faithful God has been in our lives, EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEEP IN SIN! Think about the times when His miracle working power was evident, and praise Him for it! Those old thoughts shouldn't bring up old feelings of pain and hurt, or shame and guilt! Think about how in spite of what was going on, in spite of how you were living, in spite of what you have done or said, GOD HAS BEEN CONSISTENT IN LOVING AND CARING FOR US! God has never left us, God was always there, waiting on us to realize our ways, waiting to grant us salvation! We should meditate and think about how He never stopped pursuing us! We should meditated on how God never gave up on us, how He never threw us away! That is how we should meditate! It will strengthen us, grow our faith, make us grateful for everything He has done! It will make us thankful for the bad times, for the lessons we had to learn the hard way, for the bad decisions we have made that led us to this point in Christ! It will make us grateful for the work He has done in us, for the new spirit that He has renewed in us! When you give your life to God, and takes away your sins, your hurt, pain, guilt, shame, anger, hate and anything else that is not like Him. He replaces all those things with the Holy Spirit. The will and determination to not only live right on the outside, but to be brand new on the inside! God will replace your heart of stone with a heart of flesh! The holy spirit inside of you will help you not to make the same decisions that have previously ruined you, you will not have the desire for sin, but the desire to follow Jesus and His word! We have to feed the spirit with reading the word of God, or it WILL DIE, and you will end up right back to where you started! We have to allow God to renew our minds, so that we can have a new way of thinking! This will help us process the things of this world with a heavenly outlook, to not rely on what we see or feel! We have to be very careful to not let our emotions separate us from our salvation! Our emotions cannot be trusted, they will mislead you! Only, seek God, allow the Holy Spirit guide your thoughts, so that you can see things clearly! Meditating makes us close and closer to God! It strengthens the relationship, it reinforces it with gratefulness and love! Take some time out of your day and think about the goodness of Jesus, and all He has done for you! Praise Him for what He has done, and for what He has yet to do in your life!! WHEN I THINK OF THE GOODNESS OF JESUS, AND ALL HE HAS DONE FOR ME, MY SOUL CRIES OUT HALLELUJAH! I THANK GOD FOR SAVING ME!! I love you to LIFE! GOD LOVES YOU MORE THAN YOU CAN EVERY IMAGINE!
"He says, be still, and know that I am God, I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth" Psalms 46:10
"I will meditate on all Your work And muse on Your deeds."
Psalms 77:12
"Let my meditation be pleasing to Him; As for me, I shall be glad in the LORD" Psalms 104:34
"I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your doings; I muse on the work of Your hands." Psalms 143:5
"On the glorious splendor of Your majesty And on Your wonderful works, I will meditate." Psalms 145:5
to be continued...........
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