Knowing God
How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.
Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God. It is an activity of holy thought, consciously perfromed in the presence of God, under the eye of God, by the help of God, as a means of communion with God.
J.I. Packer, Knowing God, p. 23
This is a good word. I have rediscovered the importance of biblical meditation recently. It is too easy to simply read Scripture, check it off your Christian to-do list, and then go about your business without truly being affected by the Word. I’ve found that this practice changes the way I pray, praise, and think about God. It inevitably leads to a growing love and affection for Christ as our greatest treasure. Good stuff.
