Don’t Forget to Meditate

Think about how often people will pick up the scripture, they'll read a few verses, and then they'll put the word of God down and they'll go right to Instagram, or they'll go right to replying to texts, or they'll go right to scrolling through TikTok, or maybe they enter right away into a conversation, or they just read the word, get it done, check it off the list, and then they're out the door and off with their busy schedule. But this is where we need to take the time to pause, to recognize that there needs to be a moment of meditation, because we rush through these things and we don't give the word of God time to settle in our minds. It settles in the mind. And as you meditate on it in the mind, that's like the soil. And the Word of God then can begin to grow as a root in your heart, but there has to be that meditation. If reading the Word is like eating the Word, then meditation is digestion. This is repetition in thought, thinking on the Word of God, thinking about the truths you've received, and even saying out loud again, the truth of the scripture, and then praying according to the scripture. So if I see something in the word of God, like, I'll never leave thee nor forsake thee, okay, I'll repeat that in my mind. He'll never leave me nor forsake me. He'll never leave me nor forsake me. I'll say it out loud. I'm never alone. God is with me. He's not abandoned me. He's not rejected me. I begin to speak that out as I'm continuing to think on it. And then I begin to pray. Lord, I thank you that your presence is with me. I thank you that you're in the room with me. I thank you that you're looking at me and listening to me. I thank you that I've been accepted. So you meditate on the Word by repeating the truth in your thoughts, speaking out loud the Scripture, and then praying according to the truth of the Word. Don't just go past it quickly, but instead let the Word have a moment to settle.