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“Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day.” Psalm 119:97 NKJV
Andrew Murray wrote, “There is a direct connection between the degree to which you succeed in life and the time you spend meditating on God’s Word.” God told Joshua, “meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be … successful.” (Joshua 1:8). We live in the age of ADD. We once believed that if we had more material things, we would feel happier. But it doesn’t work. The more things we acquire, the more we have to protect, insure, maintain, stress out over, and keep up with. Jesus said, “One’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses” (Luke 12:15 NKJV). So, what’s the answer? “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength,” (Isaiah 30:15). In Pathways to Power, Merrill F. Unger writes: “This holy exercise of pondering over the Word, chewing it as an animal chews its cud to get its sweetness and nutritive virtue…takes time, which ill fits into the speed of our modern age. Today most Christians’ devotions are too hurried, their lives too rushed.” The psalmist David said: “On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night. Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings. I cling to you; your right hand upholds me.” (Psalm 63:6-8). Slow down. Take time to meditate on God’s Word. Your survival, strength, and success depend on it.
PRAYER: O Lord, help me to continually get into Your Word, that Your Word would get into me and stay with me. In Jesus’ name. AMEN.
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