The mooring of daily meditation
This probably should fall under the previous heading but I didn’t want it to get lost within this post. There was a small fact that has stuck with me since my undergraduate days studying psychology and it is that it takes about eighty hours of contact time before a true friendship begins to develop. While many say we cannot have true fellowship with Jesus, they are forgetting that we really can – Christians can fellowship with Jesus through the reading of the Bible, prayer, and fellowship with other Christians. Since I’ve already discussed fellowship with other Christians, let’s look at the importance of our quiet time with the Lord. Because of the misuse of the word, many Christians are afraid to discuss meditation and prefer to call it devotional time. Meditation is the act or process of spending time in quiet thought; the act or process of meditating; an expression of a person’s thoughts on something; or the act or process of spending time in quiet thought : the act or process of meditating. It’s far more involved than just reading the scriptures for ten minutes and a quick prayer. It is spending real quality time with Jesus.
Joshua wrote, This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success (Joshua 1:8). Joshua is telling the Hebrew people to meditate both day and night. David also wrote on the same topic: My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes (Psalms 119:48). Paul encouraged Timothy along similar lines, Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all (1 Timothy 4:15). It is through our meditation on the scriptures where we really begin to learn about the Lord and enjoy the sweet fellowship He offers. For me, it is during these times of quiet meditation are when I have not only felt the presence of the Lord, but have felt Him guiding and teaching me how to be a true disciple of His.
