- Meditation – “Hearing begets knowledge, but meditation begets devotion.” “Many say they cannot meditate, because they lack memory; but is it not rather because they lack affection?”
- Meditation is:
- Retiring from the world
- Serious thinking upon God
- Reasons we should provoke ourselves to meditate:
- Meditation is contrary to flesh and blood
- Satan tries to hinder us
- What should we meditate on?
- The corruption of your nature
- The death and passion of Christ
- this produces repentance
- this fires our hearts with love to God
- evidences for our participation in heaven
- Were you convinced of sin?
- Have you taken Christ on his terms?
- Do you have the indwelling presence of the Spirit of God?
- Uncertainty of earthly comforts
- This keeps us from being deceived by the world
- This moderates our affections for them
- This causes us to pursue certainty: grace
- God’s severity against sin
- Eternal life
- It is a spiritual life
- It is a glorious life
- It will cause us to long for spiritual life
- It will comfort us in the shortness of natural life
- What can meditation do?
- It makes the Word preached of profit
- It quickens the affections
- It causes transformation
- It produces reformation
These thoughts on meditation are ... well ... worth meditating on!
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