Meditation is the art of focusing one's mind on the word of God in order to have a deeper understanding of it, thereby enhancing one's spiritual growth.
Can you remember a thing you were taught or that you read many years ago which still has a strong influence on you today.
Meditation is a significant way of handling the word of God. It is the act of taking the word of God be on our eyes and head into our heart.
It involves paying closer attention to the world as we concentrate on it and dig deeper to get the treasure there in.
Like every other spiritual discipline, meditation demands that we will draw from every form of distractions to concentrate on the word of God. This may mean switching off our phones, missing our favourite programmes on television, missing out of an interesting gist with our friends, losing some sleep just to wake up early to pay attention to God's word.
We may even miss or delay our meal because we have purpose to feed our heart before feeding our bodies.
It requires that we deny ourselves some things in order to have adequate time for the word of God.
This is the sacrifice we have to make to her as our spiritual sensitivity through meditation. For effective engagement in the spiritual discipline of meditation.
We need to always withdraw to a quiet place either within the house, outdoor or have a secluded place where we can be alone with God. this also include putting off our phones or leaving them in silent mode and other electronic gadgets to avoid distractions.
Remember God is all important and his word is loaded with treasures greater than whatever we may miss by being temporarily out of the reach of friends and business associates.
The word of God should be the basis for meditation so we need a Bible. Access to multiple versions may also be of help. As we read and ponder on the word we may need to consult other versions for clarity and deeper understanding of the passage.
As we meditate, the word of Godod comes alive in us. We may need to put down God's instructions to us from his word. Our writing materials will be useful at this time. Keeping records during a moment of meditation will also help us monitor how well we are growing spiritually.
It will be like the medical chart which which a patient vital signs are monitored.
The holy Spirit is the one who breath on the written word to enliven it. When we are connected to the holy Spirit, He set his searchlight on particular portions of the scripture for attention and those portions come alive to us.
But until God's word comes alive in us, it may not have full effect on us. therefore our partnership with holy Spirit is essential in our heart of meditation.
BENEFITS OF MEDITATION.
Meditation holds many benefits for a disciple who is committed to it. A few of those benefits I will be mentioning below.
(1). Deeper fellowship with God
(2). Stronger passion towards pleasing God
(3). Wisdom for living
(4). Preservation form destruction
(5). Prosperity and success
(6). Continuous stay on the part of purity.
(7). Answers to prayers and fruitfulness
(8). Unlimited joy
CONCLUSION.
Effective meditation on the word of God is a spiritual discipline that each disciple of Christ must be committed to. It takes intentional and deliberate efforts to achieve this. We must be ready to cut down on the time we spend on chatter and invest same on meditation, we will be glad we did