Chewing The Cud – I will meditate on your precepts

Chewing the Cud
“I will meditate on Your precepts,
and contemplate Your ways”
Psalm 119:9-24
What is Meditation?
"Meditation is simply thought prolonged and directed to a single object. Your mystic chambers where thoughts abide are the secret workshop of an unseen Sculptor chiseling living forms for a deathless future. Personality and influence are modeled here. Hence, the biblical injunction: 'Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life'" – A. T. Peirson
What is Meditation?
Meditation is CHEWING
Meditation is ANALYZING
Meditation is ACTION
Be strengthened against sin
Ps. 119:11
• Guard your hearts (Phil. 4:7-9)
• What would Jesus do?
• Be strong in the Lord (Eph. 6:10-11)
Discover spiritual truths
Ps. 119:18
• They are darkened in their understanding (Eph. 4:18)
• The righteousness of God is revealed (Rom. 1:16-17)
• Open my eyes that I may see
(Ps. 119:18)
Find wise counsel
Ps. 119:24
• A lamp to my path (Ps. 119:105)
• Written for instruction (Rom. 15:4)
• and Training in righteousness
(2 Tim. 3:16-17)
Not without problems!
• Muse
• Lean not on your own understanding (Prov. 3:5)
• There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end is the way of death (Prov. 14:12)
The fruit of meditation is the changed life!
“Let the words of they mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer”
Psalm 19:14