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As leaders in the body of Christ, we must give our lives to meditating on God’s word. We are also responsible to teach those we lead to meditate upon God’s word. This is to meditate on God’s written word, but especially upon those words that God speaks to us personally in life. To understand the words that God speaks to us we must know the general word of God as it has been given to us in His written word. God’s general will is the foundation for any specific will that He gives to us in life. The general character, nature, way, power, and authority of God is revealed in His general word and any specific word to us will agree with the principles, patterns, and values that reveal who He is in His written word. God’s words to us cause us to become an expression of His word to our world.
Meditation of God’s word is different in its process than the meditation of Eastern Religions or meditations of the mind. Eastern meditation is to empty our thoughts and receive a spiritual influence to the emptiness of our minds. This can make us vulnerable to any voice. It makes us vulnerable to any author. When we open our minds up to any spirit we can become an expression of any author. This can also be true when we simply allow our own private interpretation or misinterpretation of His written world to speak to our mind. Holy Spirit is our teacher, not Scripture. The Scripture is a witness to His voice but the person of God it the interpreter of that written word. The way of God is to our spirit. It is from the hidden place of His kingdom within us.
God doesn’t speak to our soul; He speaks to our spirit and then our spirit speaks to our soul. God is Spirit and He is the only Spirit that is life-giving to our spirit. When He speaks it is filled with the peace of His presence and it exhibits the fruit of His Spirit from within. Our spirit is our direct connection to the Spirit of God. We were created in His likeness and image when God spoke to Himself. He spoke to His Spirit, and it was from His Spirit that the inner core of humanity was made. The life of God’s Spirit is designed to be connected to our human spirit and then our human spirit floods our soul with God inspired thoughts, reasonings, imaginations, emotions, and desires. For this to happen we must tune our hearts to the frequency of God’s voice. The general word of God will reveal to us the general frequency of His voice. His voice is true to how His voice has been in the past.
The Hebrew word for meditation is the Hebrew SRN1897. הָגָה hâg̱â; a primitive root (compare 1901); to murmur (in pleasure or anger); by implication, to ponder. This word can be translated as imagine, meditate, mediate, mourn, mutter, roar, speak, study, talk, and utter. The negative expression of this word would be the Hebrew SRN1901. הָגִיג hâg̱iyg̱, which means to murmur or complain, as a whisper. This doesn’t denote a quiet emptiness. It implies an expressive response. When we meditate on God’s written word, and God’s specific words to us, we must express what He has said with our whole being – spirit, soul, and body. We are often quick to give expression to our complaints in life, but we must constantly seek to give expression to all that God has said and is saying to us.
We must be tuned to the frequency of God’s heart so when God touches us, our lives are filled with the sound of what He wants to do, not the sound of our own personal desires. The sound of God is one of life for others. It is a sound of living for the wellbeing of one another. His speech is a speech of passion and compassion.
We need to be like an empty box, with touchable strings, that is tuned to the frequency of God’s heart so when He touches us we become filled with the sound of His heart. We cannot use a misunderstanding of God’s grace as an excuse to propagate our own personal desires, ways, or opinions among men. Our hearts must be ready to be filled with the sound of what God wants in the earth and in our lives. This is a testimony of God’s grace working in us.
Psalms 1:1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night.
God’s law is the law of a Father’s love. His law is the law of a covenant keeping friend. He is both a giver of life and a helper of life in all things. We are to meditate on all that He says. We are to imagine, meditate, mediate, mourn, mutter, roar, speak, study, talk, and utter all that He says. When we do we find our roots in His Spirit, like the roots of tree by rivers of water.
Psalms 1:3 He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.
Give expression to the voice of God from within your heart. Give expression to His general will and you will tune your spirit to hear Him in His specific will in your heart. When you hear Him specifically, give yourself to being expressive with what He is saying and when you go quiet, you will hear Him more fully. When we become expressive with what He has said we are tuning the strings our hearts to the frequency of His heart. We can then trust the touch of His fingers upon our hearts as He speaks more to cause us to become all that He says. Meditate on His word and He will give a good path to your way. Live this, give yourself to it, and lead others to know the path that leads to life.
Food For Thought,
Ted J. Hanson
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