Thursday, December 14, 2006

How do you meditate on God's Word?

That was the question asked to me recently by a high school student athlete in North Carolina after speaking to a FCA Huddle Group. What a great question for a young man to ask that is looking to grow closer to the Lord. I told him that for myself, meditating on God's Word means taking a verse in the perfect, inspired Word of God (The Holy Bible) like Psalm 118:24 and committing it to memory. After that is complete, I find a quite place to reflect and repeat that verse to myself to find the deeper meaning God wants me to understand.

When I reflect on Psalm 118:24, "This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it", I think of how each day is a new day created by the very hands of God. He has decided to allow the sun to rise and for the moon to set. He gently rolls the clouds across the sky and stirs the wind to rustle the trees. It is a fresh start to leave the past behind and move forward toward growing closer to our personal Savior, Jesus Christ. We should rejoice in the fact that God loves us so much that He has given us this very day to live. The question is how will we use this day to glorify Him in all we do and will we tell others about what He has done for us.

Your Brother in Christ,

Miguel "The Hitman" Viera #40

"Committed to tackling souls for Christ"

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