Is It Okay for Christians to Participate in Meditation?

I think we know a lot of other religions talk about meditation. It is either a mental or a spiritual discipline that functions in a completely different way than what we see in Scripture. And I can't speak to all of those forms of meditation, but Biblical meditation is essentially sustained deep thought on the word of God. It is prayerful, and it is intense, and it is personal. It is taking the Scripture that you have read or perhaps have studied and rolling it over in your mind, grounding it in your heart as you seek to understand the God who is revealed there, the laws of the God that have been communicated or commanded, and it should always include a sense of introspection, not morbid introspection, and our point shouldn't be to focus on ourselves, but to see, "Lord, is there any hurtful way in me?" As the Psalmist says. So when we meditate on the word of God, we are taking God's revealed truth, seeking to know him and ourselves better, and we respond to that by faith. There should be conviction. There should also be encouragement.

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