Day Two- Meditation

Day Two  -  Meditation

Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

What is meditation?  Some Christians won’t practice meditation because it sounds too much like an Eastern religion or like mysticism.   It is a forgotten discipline among Christians in our culture.  There are many who are struggling,  trying to find strength to overcome sins and addictions.  They know what the Bible teaches,  but they don’t seem to have the strength to do what God commands.  This is a cause and effect verse. 

The effect is:

A. You shall be able to observe to do according to all that is written in the book of the law.

B.  You will have a prosperous way.

C.  You will find good success.

What is the cause of this effect? 

Many of the verses that we will look at in the next forty days will be verses that we have all heard and read many times.  We are very familiar with these passages.  When we read something familiar over and over, we are prone to think the same thoughts about that passage that we have always thought and we become “pigeon holed” in our thinking without really contemplating what the verse is saying.   For instance,  read Joshua 1:2-9.  Is there anything that you have not noticed before when you read those verses?  Your assignment today is to think about those verses all day long.  Meditate on their meaning,  not just their meaning in the context,  but their meaning to your personally.  If God were to use those verses to talk to you today,  what would He be saying to you?  What is his message to you? 

Whenever we meditate on a passage,  that passage should be forever changed in our hearts.  It should go from a teaching,  to a personal communiqué from God.  Several times in the next forty days we are going to ask you to meditate for an entire day on a familiar passage in the Bible on the subject of faith. 

An Exercise to increase our Faith :    

Read Joshua 1:2-9 and meditate throughout the day on the meaning of the passage and on God’s comment and commandment  that is directed toward you in that passage.