Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer … Let my meditation be pleasing to You (Ps. 19:14; 104:34).
Almost 60 years ago, in his book “Pathways to Power,” Dr. Merrill Unger wrote:Meditation upon God’s Word is fast becoming a lost art among many Christian people. This holy exercise of pondering over the Word, chewing it as an animal chews its cud to get its sweetness and nutritive virtue into the heart and life, takes time… [And this] ill fits into the speed of our modern age. Today most Christians’ devotions are too hurried, their lives too rushed.
If that was true in the early fifties, how much more is it true today—in an age that has become faster than Unger could have imagined. Prayer and preoccupation are strange bed-fellows. Hurriedness and Holiness are incompatible. A deep knowledge of spiritual things can only come by the way of unhurried prayer and reflection upon the Word. The goal of our ‘quiet times’ is to internalize and personalize truth until it affects our thoughts, attitudes and actions.
Finding quiet time to meditate will not be easy as you attempt to pull away from the cacophony of modern media. But it is a much-needed Christian discipline. And as you reflect on God's Word during your quiet time, you will learn to recognize God's voice and really know Him.
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