True meditation on Scripture fills your mind with God's Word through heartfelt contemplation and speaking verses aloud, not empty-mind techniques that leave you vulnerable. Reading is eating; meditation is digestion. Without it, life's distractions choke the seed of truth before it takes root.
The key to allowing this scripture to take root in the heart is meditation. Now I'm not talking about ungodly meditation because ungodly meditation says empty your mind, empty your mind, empty your mind, empty your mind. Why? Because spirits like vacuums. But godly meditation is fill your mind, fill your mind, fill your mind, fill your mind with the Word. Meditation is more than just repetition in thought. It's contemplation in the heart. It's speaking it aloud. You know that speaking it aloud is part of meditation, where you begin to say the scripture again and again and again. Here's why it doesn't go deep for us, because the distractions of the world snatch up the word. Here's what that looks like. You say, okay, I set it up. I have my Bible out, have my highlighters. I have the light on, the music's playing. It's Instagram-worthy. I'm all set to begin to study the word. You study the word, you go, wow, that's amazing. Yes, that blessed me. Oh, I was challenged there. And then you close the book, and then you instantly pull out your phone. Check, done. On to the next thing. All right, let me just kind of get in here real quick. That 15 minutes. All right, I'm I'm I'm speed reading the scripture. I got it. I did my 12 verses. Now I'm going to get on to my chores and my errands, and I got to get to work. What just happened there? The weeds of life choked out that seed because meditation. Is how you produce that longevity. Meditation is how you produce that depth. If reading the word is eating the word, meditation is digestion. It's how all the spiritual nutrients of scripture become absorbed in the spiritual body.
