What Are You Thinking?

perspective on the person, Word, and works of God than you do.

Tell this person something like this: I was praying and meditating the other day and I feel like God told me this. Perhaps this person can validate what you think you’ve learned—or let you know when you’re on shaky ground. This is an important function of the body of Christ.

Next, talking about what you’ve learned will further clarify or crystallize it in your mind. The more you talk about it and share it under God’s leading, the more you understand it and the more real it becomes.

Lastly, it will become a means of edification for somebody else. Many times, I’ve had God reveal something to me that was a tremendous truth, but I didn’t know the reason for it. However, not long thereafter, I might be having a conversation with someone and need to share the truth that God had given me earlier. God edifies us in order that we might become a means of edification for somebody else.

It’s this application phase that separates Christian meditation from other forms of meditation. These others are an inward journey, a self-oriented experience.

The meditating is for them, and not focused on anybody else. Christian meditation is the opposite. It forces us to live in reality, not escape from it. After you have finished Christian meditation, it forces an outward experience of obedience to the truth God has given.

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