Meditating on God´s Word

Call to Prayer

Title: Meditating on God´s  Word

By: Simon Maina Nuhu

Date: 20.09.2024

´This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will achieve success´ (Joshua 1:8).

When we take in physical food, it undergoes several biological processes before it finally becomes useful to the entire body. The first biological process is called digestion. It begins from the mouth to the stomach and eventually to the intestines. Now, whatever type of physical food we prepare or buy, regardless of the price has to undergo the appropriate biological protocol in order to profit the body, meaning, the several individual organs of the body do not just get nourished or obtain nutrients directly from the food without the breaking down of complex substances (Digestion). Also, when we eat solid food, it is necessary to take in water to help digest the food. The apparent consequence of taking solid physical food without water chokes.

Just like physical food, the word of God is spiritual food to our soul and spirit (Jeremiah 15:16). We need to understand that, for the word of God to profit and build our spiritual life, we need to spend quality time on meditation. Everybody can open and read the Bible, but not everybody gets revelation from reading the Bible due lack of meditation. Many times we focus much on reading the word of God to acquire knowledge, which is good but such intent could lead to just having ´head knowledge´ if one does not follow the proper way. We motivate ourselves and our new converts to always read multiple chapters of the Bible, that is awesome. The truth is, virtually every Christian somehow reads the Bible; in church, during religious festivity or personally. The question is, if everybody reads the Bible, why then do we have ignorant Believers? why do we have carnal people? why do we have heresies everywhere? why do we have weak believers? Well, in most cases, we are too hasty! we don´t allocate reasonable time to meditate carefully on the words we read in the scriptures. It is in the place of meditation the Holy Spirit breathes upon the word we study.

Meditating on the Word of God could mean many things though; there is meditation with human logic and there is meditation in the Spirit. One who reads the Bible and meditates with his logic or common sense most certainly will apply the word to the lust of his flesh. And one who meditates in the Spirit receives new revelations, empowerment, voice/mind of God and illumination to live a victorious Faith life. Just as taking the physical food requires water to ease proper digestion, the believer needs the Holy Spirit which represents water in order to have sufficient benefits from the word of God. The digestion of the word is meditation in the Spirit.

Prayer Point:

Let´s thank God for the word today and ask Him to help us meditate on the word in Spirit.