Meditating on God’s Word
“ But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.” — Psalm 1:2
All of the successful people we read about in the Bible had a habit of meditating on God’s Word. They knew that it was the way to keep their minds renewed to God’s ways. To meditate is simply to roll something over and over in your mind and think about it deeply. Meditating on God’s Word is very powerful. It’s like chewing food — if you swallow your food whole, you don’t really get all the nutrition that it has to offer. If we skim over God’s Word or just hear a weekly sermon in church, it’s like swallowing it whole and never getting the fullness of the good things out of it that God wants us to have. The Word of God has inherent power, and it’s best released as we meditate on it.
