The mind functions like a muscle; if it is not stimulated it atrophies, so the mind must be used and properly fed, and I say again, it works like a muscle, if it is not used, it atrophies. There are people who do not use the mind but are guided by what they feel; they act on impulse according to what they feel and do not think. But in the Bible we find that what is felt is not important but what is thought. We read in Proverbs 23: 7: "For what is his mind in his heart, such is he." This means that, according to how a person thinks it is; In other words, people are how they think, or, what you think determines who you are. There is a significant unity between what you think and what you are; not for what you feel but for what you think. So it's very important to think.
Some do not like to think, but the mind must be trained. Something more interesting is that, meditating induces a mode of consciousness. That is, the person voluntarily induces a certain state of consciousness about himself. Some have a rotten conscience; others have a very sensitive conscience and we have to see when the conscience is sensibly good and when it is bad. Everything has to do with the mind. Our life identifies us through what we think. In reality, what we think leads us to do what we do, what determines who we are.
The Bible gives a predominant place to the life of thoughts, so we say that there is life in our thoughts or there is death. Where should one meditate or when can one meditate? Is there a special place to do it? Can you meditate while you are doing some task? Yes! Can you meditate in your bed? Yes! Sometimes we are meditating and we do not even realize it; for example, you go on the bus and everyone sees you as a good face, but you are meditating on how you can strangle a certain person. With a wire or with a rope? It is a very common question to meditate. But there is a meditation that is superior and another that is disastrous. To meditate is to exercise in thoughts, is to exercise with thoughts.
There are meditations that are perverse and wrong and we must learn to get out of our minds those thoughts of failure, of anguish and of rejection. I have to meditate on those things that will get me out of my wrong thoughts and introduce me to the right thoughts. The thoughts of God have the life of God. Jesus said: "My words are Spirit and they are life." Words make up thoughts. When Jesus spoke, he spoke the word of God and the Spirit of God entered into people. The thoughts of God come from his word and that word of God has spiritual life, and the spiritual life is the very life of God operating in you. God enters you through his word and his thoughts. What should I meditate on then? I must meditate on the truth!
How sad when we spend time looking at novels that make us think dumbstruck; sad when we crossed the street looking at the cell phone. People know more about the applications of the cell phone than their family and look more at the cell phone screen than the face of their spouse or their children. All the things we focus on generate thoughts in us. To meditate means to exercise our mind and our thoughts in those things in which we concentrate. If the Bible bores you, I see you badly. Where are you going to get it right? Where are you going to draw strength and power from God? The strength, power and life of God are in the word of God; which will teach you what you have to meditate on. We read in Psalm 104: 31-34: "Let the glory of the Lord be forever; let Jehovah rejoice in his works. He looks to the earth, and she trembles; touch the mountains, and they smoke. I will sing to Jehovah in my life; my God I will sing psalms while I live. Sweet will be my meditation on him; I will rejoice in Jehovah. " This means that you wake up and the first thought that comes to you is important since it speaks of your priorities, as some concern, things that afflict you or demand attention from you. The first thought suggests something that was spinning in your unconscious while you were sleeping. So you wake up in the morning and the first thought that comes to you is the Lord, then you say: "Blessed be your name! I love you God! "Do not wake up thinking about what you are going to eat today, or about the debt that worries you; before opening your eyes, may your first thought be God. Your God is bigger than your problems! The center of your satisfaction should be God and not your problem. And if you are aware of the God you have, you start your day praising him and enlarging his name. "Sweet will be my meditation on him; I will rejoice in Jehovah. " This is meditating on God.
What we eat every day is thanks to the sun that God gave us; that is the fruit of the great love and great mercy of the Lord upon us. Do not say that God is unjust when you deserved eternal condemnation and He sent his only begotten Son to die on the cross of Calvary so that your sins are forgiven, so that your guilt is taken away and you pass from a state of condemnation to eternal salvation. How are you going to think that God does not remember you! How can you think that God is unjust! Stop being a negative and complaining person. The Lord says to you today: "Meditate on me, meditate on my works and you will see wonderful results".
Psalm 119: 27 says: "Make me understand the way of your commandments, so that I may meditate on your wonders." The commandments of God are wonderful. In Psalm 1 we read: "Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law he meditates day and night. "
Wise is the person who meditates on the law of God. And today you have learned that you must meditate on God, meditate on his works and his commandments. Earlier I said that Sophocles affirmed that truth defeats reason. And Jesus declared: "I am the truth." The law of God, the word of God, is the truth, and it overcomes everything. I'm sure more than one has to ask God's forgiveness for complaining so much.
