Meditation: Gazing on God (Ps 27)
One of the best ways to learn and live the Scriptures is to meditate on them. Biblical meditation is taking a word, truth, or doctrine, and steeping it like tea leaves in your mind, allowing those biblical realities to flavor and transform your spirituality.
Meditation on the Bible takes a little bit of time. You can rush making tea, but it won’t be very good. Weak. Diluted. In meditation, you grab a word and draw out its implications. All you must do is pause, reflect, and consider how this particular word changes things, what it’s communicating, and why it matters.
Let’s begin.
Read: Psalm 27:4
I have asked one thing from the LORD;
it is what I desire:
to dwell in the house of the LORD
all the days of my life,
gazing on the beauty of the LORD
and seeking him in his temple.
— Psalm 27:4
Meditate: “I have asked one thing from the LORD; it is what I desire”
One thing + desire. How many things do we truly want in life? How often do we say, “What do you want?” Whether…
