What do you meditate on?

Some men meditate hunting and the Military Channel. Some women meditate on online shopping and HGTV. None of these options are wrong of course, but they may prevent us from really mediating on what is really necessary.

A Christian’s first thought and choice should be to mediate on the Bible. When “meditate” is used in the Bible, it means “to keep on giving serious consideration to something — to ponder, to let one’s mind dwell on, to keep thinking about, to fix one’s attention on.” Meditation is to the soul what digestion is to the body.

To really grow in Christ, you need to seriously consider the Bible at some point everyday. Psalms opens with this statement: “But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night” (1:2). Furthermore, Psalm 119:97 says, “O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.” You become what you mediate on.  While meditating on the aforementioned subjects aren’t sinful, they also aren’t spiritually edifying. No one could possibly meditate on a single object or idea all day long, but I fear that too many never fit the Bible into their thoughts during the day. One powerful weapon that keeps me from sinning is meditation. Again, the psalmist wrote, “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee” (Psalms 119:11). The word dispels the darkness and gives me strength. It will do the same for you — but only if you use it.

Kyle Campbell