A method for meditating on Scripture that treats reading like eating and meditation like digestion. Read slowly verse by verse, memorize passages aloud in small sections, then close your eyes and ask the Holy Spirit for insight and conviction where your life conflicts with the teaching.
If reading the Word is eating the Word, then meditation is digestion, repetition in thought. You go verse by verse slowly, no rush, and just begin to think about all of the different things that you're reading, not allowing your mind to wander. Because sometimes what we do is suddenly you start to daydream about other things. Don't do that. Discipline of the mind, focus of the mind, diligence of the mind. Focus on the truths being communicated and begin to repeat it out loud to yourself. Digest it, and then as best I can, I try to memorize as much of the text as possible. And I'll go over the chapter again and again and again. First, I'll maybe be able to memorize verses 1 through 3. I say it out loud, I look back, maybe I didn't get it word for word, but I got the gist of it. And so I do that again and again until I can go through the whole chapter and repeat it back, if not word for word, at least idea for idea. for idea, thought for thought, and then close my eyes and I just repeat that. And I focus on the words and I analyze what it could mean to me today. And I ask the Lord to help me to apply it. And I ask the Lord to help show me where maybe my life is contradicting some of the teachings there. And I ask the Holy Spirit to help me to appreciate each saying, each word. There's this love for the Word, this passion for the sayings of Scripture, and that love causes the nutrients to begin to go deep. And then you get that spiritual strength.
