MOMENTS OF MEDITATION

PSALM 119.27

Sunday, August 11, 2013

6:27 AM

Our Creator, God, the I AM  of Eternity, the Author and the Finisher of Life, all Life, the Beginning and End, of and for all things, makes Himself known to us in 

 

moments of Meditations.

 

The Scripture calls for moments of meditation in many places, from the writings of Moses though the writings of John, Genesis-Revelation.

 

Abraham built altars for meditation everywhere he moved.

Moses writes of several ways he meditates, and he urges--insists!--on our doing so.

The Psalms insist on meditation from first to last.

David meditated in the Temple, as well as among the sheep.

Isaiah tells of meeting God with the angels in the Temple.

All the Prophets and Apostles met with God.

Jesus met with His Father in the "wee" hours of morning--

           a practice highly recommended in the Psalms.

 

Jesus called these meetings "Abiding."

John called them "Fellowship."

Most all other references simply say "meeting" or "met" with God.

 

Paul makes meditation  the vital part of Prayer, as if there is no effective prayer apart from meditation that brings us knowledge, understanding, and wisdom as the way God answers us.

 

Meditation seems to be the point of the Lord's Prayer.

The outline of prayer is given as "Ask-Seek-Knock." 

                "Seek" would be meditation. 

 

Jesus insists that meditation on Scripture is an essential part of "Abiding."

 

Meditation as the key to understanding Scripture and therefore to answered prayer. There are unlimited answers to prayer according to the promises of Scripture.

 

 

 

His divine power has given us everything we need

for a godly life through our knowledge of Him

Who called us by His own glory and goodness. 

2 Peter 1.3

 

 

This is my prayer:  that you love may abound more and more

 in knowledge and depth of insight,

so that you be able to discern what is best

and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ...

Philippians 1.9-10

 

 

 

His delight is in the law of the Lord,

and he meditates on His law day and night.

Psalm 1.2