7 Things - Meditation

Last week I was looking at certain concepts in Psalm 1. In this Psalm, the Lord calls on us to meditate on His Word. 

In non-Christian meditation, we are encouraged to empty the mind, to focus on the inward self. In Christian meditation, we fill our minds with God's Word, and look towards Him rather than towards ourselves. Christian meditation is a means to fill our lives with God's words and allow them to grow in our hearts as a living power within us - it is one way to abide in Him:

Jn. 8:31 ..."If you abide in My Word, you are My disciples indeed."

Jn. 15:7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.

Here are the 7 things that the Lord invites us to meditate on in the Old Testament, and a couple of helpful lists to meditate on form the New Testament:

• The Lord calls us to meditate on His Law – His Word: Josh 1:8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success

Ps. 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night.

Ps. 119:148 My eyes are awake through the night watches, That I may meditate on Your word.


• The Lord calls us to meditate on Him through the night: Ps. 63:6 When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches

• The Lord calls us to meditate on the song He gives us in the night: Ps. 77:6 I call to remembrance my song in the night; I meditate within my heart, And my spirit makes diligent search.

• The Lord calls us to meditate on his works: Ps. 77:12 I will also meditate on all Your work, And talk of Your deeds (Ps. 119:27; 143:5)

• The Lord calls us to meditate on His commandments and ways: Ps. 119:15 I will meditate on Your precepts, And contemplate Your ways.(Ps. 119:23, 48. 78)


• The Lord calls us to meditate on His splendor and majesty: Ps. 145:5 I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty, And on Your wondrous works.

• The Lord calls us to meditate on His name: Mal. 3:16 Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, And the Lord listened and heard them; So a book of remembrance was written before Him For those who fear the Lord And who meditate on His name.

• The Lord calls us to meditate on things that are: Phil. 4:8

- What is true

- What is noble

- What is just

- What is pure

- What is lovely

- What is of good report

- What is virtuous

- What is praiseworthy

• The Lord calls us to meditate on: 1Tim. 4:12-15

- Our words

- Our conduct

- Our love

- Our faith

- Our purity

- The Word of God

- The gifts of God

Ps. 104:33-34

I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;


I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

May my meditation be sweet to Him;


I will be glad in the Lord.