Meditations

Oh how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day.

• Psalm 119:97

A meditation is a week-long focus on a single scripture. It’s a time to memorize it, to ponder on it, to read about it, and to listen to great preachers teach on it. Thus we carry that scripture with us always, written in our mind. It helps us to deeply understand that passage, having written it onto our hearts, so that it can effect us more deeply than a mere reading of it.

Some practical advice. I struggle to sit down to memorize anything, but I’m very fond of multitasking. The wonderful thing about meditating on the word is that it doesn’t cost any time if we are wise with how we do it. So for me, after my daily prayer and reading time I do a short workout on workdays. During the warm-up and cooldown times I’m repeating the scripture over and again to myself. If the scripture lends itself to being split up into 4-5 portions I’m using that to count reps, or repeating the scripture between sets. This has the added benefit of training oneself to recall scripture when one is under stress. Then when I need to do tasks that occupy the hands but not the mind, like most chores, that’s when I listen to someone preaching on the passage. Lastly, taking from the wisdom of writing the scriptures on the doorposts I put the passage where I’ll see it repeatedly through the day, which for me is my desktop wallpaper.

Here I record the scriptures I have meditated on along with the resources I have used. I share this because it’s difficult to find good resources, so I hope it saves you some time. If it’s this week’s meditation then I may not have curated those resouces yet as I’ll still be working through them too.