Legal meditation.

(Psa 119:97 KJV)  MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

 (Proverbs 28 also read)

As I am sitting in the morning darkness, considering the word of God, the idea of meditation comes to mind.  First, realize that biblical meditation is not the same as the meditation of the eastern religions.  Biblical meditation has to do with taking a scripture or an attribute of God and focusing on it, thinking about it, plunging into the depths of its meaning.  It is not an emptying of your mind.  It is a filling of your mind.

So when we talk about meditating on the law, what does it look like?  If you’re taking the first commandment or what Jesus called the greatest commandments, it’s not too hard.  But I ask myself, “How would David meditate on obscure specific laws such as not plowing with two different types of animals?”  At first it seemed impossible.  But with a little bit of thought, I came up with some ideas.

One of the things that came up was comparing that law with the idea that we are not to be unequally yoked.  That would give me a start for thinking about many of my relationships in life and my priorities.  I would be meditating on the law and coming to a greater understanding of God and my relationship to Him, as well as my relationship to other people.

So?  Learn to meditate by looking deeper into meanings.  Sometimes that will take you on a tangent we would have never imagined, and those will be helpful in understanding what’s going on in life.  It may not make any sense to anyone else, but it may draw you closer to the eternal God of the Bible.