How've your devotion been going?

Instead of answer like, 'yeap, i'm doing good with it', 'oh, it's fabulous!' etc, why not further discuss about it with the people around about what you learned? It doesn't have to be discussed only when there is a right 'timing' for it. God's word can be discussed anywhere! I mean, aren't we told to share God's word every where we go? :D

Ever heard of 'meditating on His word?'

I bet you do. What's the purpose of a devotion? An answer that wouldn't appear here but it may create some time for thought in your brain. Unless you had just joined us for a few weeks, you should at least know one of the answer for 'the purpose of a devotion'. (Please ask your shepherd or leader if you do not know.) Often a time we're reminded to meditate on His word but what's actually meditating? How do i go about it?

As i was being reminded as well since yesterday, i'd decided to go look for it around the net and found a site talking about it. I would like to share it with you guys :D

credits: x

Principle Scriptures on the Discipline of Meditation: Joshua 1:6; Psalm 1:2;
19:14; 63:6; 77:10-12; 119:11, 17-18, 97-102, 148; Romans 12:1-2; Philippians
4:8; 1 Thessalonians 5:17; Hebrews 2:1

Here is how you can find out.
Take a careful look at this Discipline of Meditation from God’s most precious
Word by examining your life and the passages above. Now ask yourself:

1. How do I exhibit a life of meditation in my daily life now?
2. How can I develop th willingness to b a mor disciplined person who'll meditate on God?
3. What blocks meditation from working and being exhibited in me?
4. How can I initiate meditation, and discipline myself to carry it out?
5. What can I do to make meditation function better, stronger, and faster, even in times of uncertainty and stress?

`Here are positive examples from Scripture:
Gen. 24:63; Psalm 19:14; 39:3; 49:3; 63:5-6; 104:34; 139:15-18; 23, 48, 55, 59,
78, 97-99; 148

`Here are negative examples from Scripture: Isa.
59:14-15; Hos. 4:1; John 8:44; Rom. 1:21-22; 2 Pet. 2:10; Rev. 3:20

The Discipline of Meditation basically means we are to focus, ponder, and reflect upon Christ. The discipline aspect of “biblical” Christian meditation means we commit to pay attention to Him, giving Him our total concentration as LORD over us. We are to “contemplate” and “deliberate,” which is to put Christ at the center of our attention and will by deliberating on His instructions and comparing them to what comes across our paths in life. This way, we can conform our mindset to replicate His Way, precepts, and call. This will enable us to “rehearse,” and make His ways our rehearse and reason, engaging in spiritual growth so He can communicate with us in order to shape and form us. Meditation helps us in our quest to grow in Him. Thus, we can “weigh" and study what God requires of us; then, by our attentiveness and determination, implement the application of what Christ has for us. Meditation subsequently allows us to become more humble-minded, relational, and active in God so we can be better able to lift our heart, will, thinking, and reasoning over to Him and then be better at reflecting and focusing on Him.

What meditation is not is
focusing on our feelings, intuition, exercise, detachment, manipulation, or some breathing techniques to get what we want from God or a deeper sense of ourselves. Nor is it “emptying” ourselves, seeking some kind of mantra or a path to attain enlightenment, because we want to “fill” ourselves with the Spirit and His precepts rather than “empty” ourselves! Nor is meditation some esoteric Nirvana to get a hidden meaning or go to a deeper level. God calls us to a deep level as we seek Him, placing Him first by what He has revealed, not seeking something He has not revealed. Emptying ourselves leaves room for the devil's ways and our will to take over. Rather, biblical meditation “fills” our mind and “attaches” us to Christ as in aligning us, focusing us upon our Lord as Lord over all we are and desire to be. Meditation is not difficult or complicated, nor is it for just pious “monasticism;” rather, it is for any Christian desiring more of Him and less of self (John 3:5).

What happens when we do
not practice this discipline? We are choosing not to grow closer to our
Lord. Or, perhaps we are using an excuse that because others have misused this
practice and turned it into what it is not, we are to totally abandon it. In
biblical meditation, the foundation is the Lord, who equips us to meet the
emotional, physical, and spiritual needs of one another. This discipline is not
emptying our mind or evoking some eastern religious or cultist view; rather, it
is drawing our attention to Christ—to whom He is and what He has done for us.

Just to share my learning point with you guys. I'd learned that if any decision i'd involved even 0.01% of my feeling and emotion in it, it could be a wrong decision. God do allow feeling and emotion, but not at the wrong situation. (:

Gambatte yoh.

ps, im back.