Undistracted Devotion: Meditating on Scripture
According to Scripture, it’s one of the keys to a transformed life. It’s an essential step in making the Bible more than words on a page. What is it? Meditation, perhaps the most important thing we're not doing. Biblical meditation isn’t emptying your mind like in yoga or New Age spirituality—it’s filling your mind with God’s truth and turning it over and over again in prayerful reflection. It has real content: God’s Word. As Donald Whitney puts it, “Meditation on Scripture is letting the Bible brew in the brain.” It’s like hot water percolating through coffee or soup simmering on the stove. The longer it steeps, the richer it gets. It’s like lingering by a fire until you’re warm all the way to the bone. In our age of speed and distraction, the art of pondering has almost been lost. But if we want lasting spiritual change, we must slow down. We must fight the urge to constantly check our phones, skim headlines, and jump from one thought to the next. Only by gazing deeply at Script...
