Think about this...

When I was in college, I had a mentor, Mark W.,  who was very big of scripture ministry. Any time he would see any of us involved in campus ministry leadership he would walk up to us and say "Give me five" of "Give me ten." We would then be responsible for giving him either 5 or 10 scriptures from memory. Not just the verse, but also the reference of where it came from.

The thing that Mark knew was that remembering scripture and meditating on it has an impact on your life.

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
       (Psalm 1:1-2 ESV)

Psalms starts of with a bold statement that a blessed person delights in the lord and meditates on Gods law day and night! The word for Hebrew word for meditate is translated a few different ways.


Then my tongue shall tell of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long.
        (Psalm 35:28 ESV) 


Lisa, my wife was telling me about this a few weeks ago - meditating can be translated as moaning, uttering, meditating, devising, speaking. It's like pondering, talking about it... mulling it over and over again in your mind.


Really, if you think about it, a society becomes what it meditates on. Peoples lives... reflect what they meditate on.

So... here are my 2 questions for the day...

1. Can you give me 5?
2. What are you meditating on?

Let's work on meditating on the Word of God, not just the promises - let's meditate on what God says about  Himself - what he likes... what he doesn't like... and let's struggle to embrace that!