Benefits of Meditation
I started reading the Bible as a teenager for myself. Spending time on my knees reading the Bible, meditating on it, and thinking of God’s ways for my life.
I found in Joshua chapter 1 these words: “Don’t let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything that is written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. [Joshua 1:8]”
What the Lord is telling us here - repeated in the New Testament as well as in the Old Testament - is that there can be victory and prosperity and success spiritually, as well as in other ways when you spend time meditating on the word of God.
When He calls it “the law of the Lord,” He is talking about the word of God. The word of God purifies your thought life. The word of God gets your mind thinking proper thoughts. You align your thoughts with God’s thoughts, God’s mind with your mind.
Therefore, you begin to look at life, the problems of life, the opportunities – family, friendships, church, loving your neighbors – it all comes into focus when you meditate on the word of God.
So biblical meditation is meditating on the holy word of God.
“The word of God purifies your thought life. The word of God gets your mind thinking proper thoughts. You align your thoughts with God’s thoughts, God’s mind with your mind.”
Joshua 1:8
“Don’t let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything that is written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.”