Category Archives: Meditation

The Word Worth Remembering (Psa 119.93)

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I will never forget thy precepts:
For with them thou hast quickened me (Psa 119.93).

No small part of Christian piety consists of expressing holy resolutions to God with conscious dependence on his grace for the strength to keep them. As a young man freshly converted from mere nominal Christianity to a new and wonderful sense of God’s glory, Jonathan Edwards sat to draw up the first batch of his now famous 70 resolutions. These were his deeply felt spiritual aspirations founded upon the application of biblical principles to his life. Resolution lists were a common part of one’s devotional life in those days, but it is hard to imagine that many had as much God-given drive and discipline as Edwards in keeping them.
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Intelligent Praise (Psa 119.27)

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Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: So shall I talk of thy wondrous works (Psa 119.27).

Our generation suffers a glut of information and a famine of thoughtfulness. Even amidst exploding technologies, and perhaps to some degree because of them, there runs a strong undercurrent of anti-intellectualism. Without strenuous efforts to avoid the chronic and ubiquitous distractions of cell phones, email, iPods, notebooks PC’s in WiFi hotspots, along with the older media of cable TV, radio, and newspapers, we are apt to suffer from an information overload that pushes out any significant time and mental energy for meditation in the deep things of God, while our wide and shallow knowledge of countless trivial things has never been greater.
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Great Opposition and Its Remedy (Psa 119.23)

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Princes also did sit and speak against me: But thy servant did meditate in thy statutes (Psa 119.23).

Most of us are easily hurt if anyone criticizes us, but how much greater a trial would it be if those with authority over us were to exercise their official power in condemning us! While rare for Americans today, many of our brethren have had to suffer this terrible ordeal throughout church history. The psalmist testifies of enduring this kind of personal trouble, and he tells us of the remedy he had discovered.

We use the term “remedy” not in the sense of a cure, so that he was taken out of the painful circumstances, but in the sense of a therapy, so that he could be comforted in them, helped to know what he ought to do, and strengthened to do it.
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Pondering God’s Precepts (Psa 119.15)

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I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways (Psa 119.15).

Biblical godliness includes a life of reverent contemplation or meditation with your attention fixed upon the very words of Scripture. God calls you to this, whatever your intelligence or personality or particular circumstances.

Some communities like the urban poor or Southern poor generally tend to disdain the importance of education. Strong social pressure works against individuals who would become good students, make high grades, go to college, and earn advanced degrees, and this general disapproval discourages many from breaking out of their community mold.
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