The Power of Meditation

UV 318/10,000 Amazing principles of the Uni-verse revealed verse by verse
Profit from meditation
1Ti 4:15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

When we meditate on the things of God, we also begin to prosper in the things of man: in health, in peace,in strength, in wisdom, in relationships, in life as a whole. The Word of God talks of a direct link between meditation on the Word and wholesome success or well being summed up in the word Shalom. When should we meditate? It is not just a particular time set aside for meditation but we should meditate day and night. We must meditate in the morning on His Word and on His deeds during the day, on the happenings that the Lord allowed during the day. We must meditate while we lie in bed. In the morning, our meditation is a meditation of hope,during the day it is a meditation of strength and at night – a meditation of rememberance and thanksgiving. Meditation is a spiritual exercise that adds up to godliness. It is not a part time exercise or a spare time exercise but a whole time obsession. The word," give thyself" implies that it requires a conscious effort. The word " wholly" implies that over time meditation runs concurrently all the time in our subconscious parallel to any day time or night time activities we are doing

What are the things of God that we should be increasingly obsessed with in meditating upon? The Word of God is the most important as it contains the revealed will of God. We must eat the Word, digest it or understand it and it will nourish our deepest being. Our meditation should lead up to application of what we thought upon in different areas of our lives. We must meditate on the works of God: nature, His redemption plan for us, His judgements on evil in history, His testimonies or accounts of God working in our midst even in contemporary times, the precepts or teachings of the Lord. We must talk of His doings in our lives. In other words, there must be an outflow of joy from our meditation that we share with others.

If prayer corresponds to the physical process of breathing, meditation corresponds to the physical process of eating or nourishment. In the book of Revelation, we read of the vision where the angel exhorts the writer to take the little book and eat it. He eats it to find that it is sweet as honey in the mouth but becomes bitterness in the belly. It implies that meditation is like medicine. It is a spiritual germicide. It is also a spiritual multivitamin that stimulates all our thoughts, words, deeds and decisions. Like some medicines with different flavours it is sweet in the mouth but becomes bitter in the stomach as it attacks the root cause of many human ailments-germs and takes healing and strength to the inner parts of the body. The beneficial results of such meditation will be evident in all areas of our lives and it will be increasingly evident to all others around us. Our friends and well wishers will recognize that this is the source of our blessings. Our foes and rivals will realize that this is the secret of our strength, success and fulfillment. Unlike food and medicine, we will never suffer the ill effects of too much meditation. On the contrary, my practical experience over the past thirty years shows that it is a great stress-buster.

Prateep V Philip
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