What Are You Thinking?

Principle number seven: Meditation will make us more aware of sin in our own life by making us more aware of His holiness. The more we meditate on the person of God, the more we are going to understand the nature of God, which is absolute perfection. The more we see His absolute perfection and holiness, the more like Isaiah we’ll be: we’ll fall down and yell, “Woe to me!” (Isaiah 6). We’ll be aware of our sin.

Recall the illustration that the closer our hand gets to a light, the more dirt we can see on it. Many of us would prefer not to meditate because what we see scares us.

The more we really see God in His holiness, the further away from Him we feel because of our unrighteousness and unholiness.

Principle number eight: Meditation will enlighten, deepen, and intensify our prayer life. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 14:15 that we can pray in the Spirit by meditating and having our mind become one with God’s mind. Meditation, then, will become more of a dynamic dialogue rather than a monotonous monologue.

Most of us tend to pray as a monologue. We go to God and tell Him what we want and how we feel.

There’s no real dynamic dialogue taking place. It’s a monologue where we’re doing all the talking and not very much listening. We need to listen as well. Jesus said in John 16:13, “But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.”

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