Meditation and a Verse

Meditation and a verse is rather a cryptic topic. For any who have started to practice the discipline of meditation as noted by Richard Foster, this may be more clear.

My house church and whole family have been working on the topic of meditation for some time. I have been encouraged as the book say of course toy are not good at it, You have not practiced.

We were out at a park, as family, and my dear wife said lets each give the the person next to us a verse and then we each meditate on the verse we got from our family member. My 16 year old daughter gave me the whole 23rd Psalm. 🙂 I took the first verse.

The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

I sensed God wanted me to say “you will lack nothing” Somehow, I then received that right down to my soul. I have often repeated Jesus’ command to not worry about tomorrow. But it has not moved me. This time of meditation in Ps 23:1 did. I suddenly felt released like I had not felt before.

Meditation and a Verse Plus Other Ways

Other times I meditate and have trouble slowing down and opening my heart to God. Meditation takes long practice I am seeing,

Why did this verse and time reach me? Another time, three of us went out for a walk to practice meditating, I wanted to try to enter into a Bible scene and feel all that was happening there. My mind turned to Revelation 4 and 5.  John weeps as no one is found worthy to open the scroll. I wept as saw the lamb who had been been slain enter the hall. Further, God moved me and I felt the glory of our living God. I felt the holy space where my pride is gone and so is my feeling of not being good enough. I love getting past myself to Jesus. It brings me up and down.

We have to try different ways. We need to keep practicing to learn how to hear God in meditation. Richard Foster gave us energy in his  book in the chapter on meditation.

From this I see that walking with others to meditate helps me. Sitting with others has not yet reached me. I have not been successful using music by myself  recently.  By myself, I did not find any real success yet. by myself using a first is still just a verse in the page. I need more practice, but am glad to come this far.