The Lost Art-Meditation

MY DEVOTIONAL MEDITATION

I’ve started reading through my Bible again in my devotional time. While meditating on Abel, I received such a blessing. It never occurred to me, he was the first sinner to go to heaven, the first one to enter, singing, if you please, “Redeemed, how I love to proclaim it; redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.” He was first to worship and praise God for His salvation by grace, to behold the pre-incarnate Lamb who was the antitype, the foreshadowing, of his own animal sacrifice, standing next to His Father. You might say, in one sense, he had heaven all to himself.

THE COW’S CUD

The old saying, “Chewing the cud,” generally refers to a cow bringing back up partly digested food from their first stomach, to the mouth again, for further chewing. One could apply this to some extent to meditating on the Word. We need to take more time chewing (meditating) on the Word of God. We need more “Selahs” in our Bible time. David mentions this word over seventy times in the book of Psalms. We also need to pause and consider what we have just read. All deep thinking Christians are men and women who give time to meditating on the Word. We need to heed the words, “Dwell deep.”

THE BLESSED MAN

The sweet Psalmist tells us the man (or woman) God blesses meditates in God’s Word, night and day. That is, he or she is thinking about it “round-the-clock,” as they say. C.H. Spurgeon has a good note on this in his book, Treasury of David. “He delights, moreover, to meditate in it, to read it by day, and think upon it by night. He takes a text and carries it with him all day long; and in the night-watches, when sleep forsakes his eyelids, he museth upon the Word of God. In the day of his prosperity he sings Psalms out of the Word of God, and in the night of his affliction he comforts himself with promises out of the same book. "The Law of the Lord" is the daily bread of the true believer.”