87MEDITATE ON GOD’S WORD

 

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MEDITATE ON GOD’S WORD

Read the context the verse refers to.

Today’s chapter is Galatians 2

The Holy Spirit leads us into this quiet fellowship with God,

so that we can reflect on God’s Word and on our own lives with Him.

But it is clear that Satan will do everything to prevent us from giving ourselves

time to reach this quiet fellowship with God.

Many do not know that they ponder every day about everything possible.

They ponder their worries.

Over and over they go through the worries, turning

and twisting them until they fill their whole lives.

They ponder their present and past and future

situations.

You see it when you walk by people on the sidewalk and you can see their lips moving. They are talking to themselves, they ponder the worries of daily life.

Their minds are full of musings

But you can also instead ponder = think about God's word:

Prov. 4 20-23 “ My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my words; do not let them slip away from you; keep them in your heart; for they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh. Above all else, guard your heart, for from it flow the issues of life.” Do not let them slip away from you; keep them in your heart.”

What else is it than to ponder = think concentratedly on

God's word.

Here we are not talking about filling your mind with God's word,

but filling your heart = mind with God's word.

Here there needs to be silence in the inner man = in the heart.

God's word.

You guard it deep in your heart, to guard is to watch.

It is better to ponder on God's word than to ponder

over your worries.

I hope you are beginning to understand what the word ponder is

and are not afraid of this word.

The big question is what you are pondering.

Is it the mysticism of the East that you are searching into as many do today

or is it the word of God?

Are there the daily worries?

Or are it the promises of God's word.

That is what is crucial.

Paul also meditated, but it

was a different kind of meditation than the occult meditation.

He meditated on God's word.

Gal.2-20 “ and it is no longer I who live, but Christ

lives in me.”

If you use occult meditation, yoga and other things, you dissolve your personality and evil spirits come and take over and they bring diseases with them.

But when Paul meditates = meditated, he is filled with Jesus

and grows into the likeness of Him.

Have you thought about it? You may have a mantra a Rama that you have received through occult meditation this can lie deeply hidden and affect your life, it can actually cause illnesses in particular some of the physical illnesses can in some cases be maintained because of a mantra they have taken in and block the life of the Holy Spirit?

Ramah is the name of an idol, but also the city where Rachel wept over her children because they crushed the heads of the children of Israel against the rock. To make it short, he was completely healed and learned to meditate on the word of God.

He learned to hide it deep in his heart, as Proverbs wrote, it is health to all your body. Ps.119-81 “ After your salvation my soul longs My soul, I wait for your word. Ps.119-114 You are my hiding place and my shield, I wait for your word. Ps.119 147-148 I cry out to you for help, and I wait for your word. Before the night watches my eyes are awake, that I may meditate on your word.”

three words that come up again: Oratio, meditatio and tentatio, and that means:

Prayer, meditation and challenge.

We hope you begin to understand that it is necessary for born-again Christians to ponder, yes it is necessary to ponder the word of God.

To ponder = to think about the word of God, to turn and turn the word.

To chew the cud on the word.

To fill your thoughts and heart with the word of God.

For example. To take a word into everyday life and chew the cud on it.

Instead of chewing the cud throughout the day on all your

worries.

It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. is a good word, to chew the cud on.

Or any other word the Holy Spirit inspires.

Seriously, do you really take the Word of God seriously? Do you act on it in your own life? Or do you just sit and say. Yes, that's how I am etc. You must live by the Word of God and react when you are personally affected and turn from what God's Word points to in your life.

LET US MAKE TIME TO BE SILENT BEFORE THE LORD.

AMEN