September 6, 2025 4:00 am
The Bible commands believers to meditate on its scriptures, emphasizing thoughtfulness with a purpose to obey God's Word. This devotional practice is distinct from Eastern meditation cults that lead to pantheism and occultism. Only by being guided by the Holy Scriptures can one be happy and successful, as commanded by Paul in 1 Timothy 4:13 and 15.
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Yeah. Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. Meditation. This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth. but thou shalt meditate therein day and night.
that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein. for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. Joshua 1.8. This well-known verse contains the first use of the Hebrew word for meditate. Haga.
in the Bible and significantly It is a command to meditate on the scriptures. Such meditation is not mere quietness or day dreaming. but is thoughtfulness with a purpose to obey all that is written therein. Meditation for its own sake, without being centered on God's Word, is often useless or even harmful. Consider the Western proliferation of Eastern meditation cults that lead their devotees into pantheism and occultism.
Isaiah 8.19 warns against wizards that peep and that mutter, same word as meditate. Why do the people imagine, same word, a vain thing? The blessed man is the one whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and night. Psalm 1.2. That is, only if we are continually guided by the Holy Scriptures will we be happy and successful.
In the New Testament, the Greek word for meditate, melatau, is used only twice. Once it is translated imagine and is in a quotation of Psalm 2.1 as above. The last time it is used, however, The emphasis reverts back to the context of its first usage, as in our text above. Paul commands us, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Meditate upon these things.
Give thyself wholly to them, that thy profiting may appear to all. first Timothy four, thirteen, and fifteen. Modern meditationists say that the goal of meditation is to clear our minds of things, but God wants us to meditate on these things. the life-giving, life-directing doctrines of His Word. If you've enjoyed today's devotional, be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.
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