Church of God, NM - Mustard Seed - Five Ways to Meditate

Think through all the applications of god’s law and teachings as they apply to your life and to today’s society. Remember Deut. 6:6-7: “and these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and you shall teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when you sit in thine house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.”

When things go wrong, think on what laws or principles of God were violated by you and/or others. But start with yourself. You know that whatever we ask of Him we receive because we keep His commandments and do those things (or follow those ways) that are pleasing in His sight (I John 3:22; 5:14) - not just the Ten Commandments, but all the ways of God, involving how we take care of our bodies, the kind of food we eat, music we listen to, the way we dance, the kind of companion we seek. In all those things we ought to meditate on and practice the ways of God.

As you read of Abraham’s obedience to the command to sacrifice his own son because of God’s test, or of Israel’s going out into a desert place, not knowing how they were going to eat or how God was going to take care of them, even under difficult circumstances, think through how you can learn from these lessons and apply them to your life. Think what you would do, and ought to do through the mind of Christ. As you meditate, literally plan steps right then to improve your future performance.

When a big decision arise, or long-range planning is needed in you life, meditate. Think through carefully the spiritual pros and cons in the light of instruction of the Bible. Don’t act without sufficient reason, just on the basis of an untried thought or idea, or on impulse.

Use the Sabbath for a physical rest—but not a spiritual rest—take an spiritual inventory of the growth that you’ve experienced. How you’ve used your time, the problems you’ve experienced, why you’ve had the problems, could I have avoided them, how to overcome them, how to do better next week. Short range-goals make good jump-starts. II Corinthians 13:5: “examine yourselves (that is, meditate), whether ye be in the faith; prove (test) your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?”

As you think and meditate on the ways of God, ask him to “let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 2:5).

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