Meditação
A meditação na Palavra de Deus é prática espiritual essencial. Diferente da meditação oriental, a meditação bíblica é reflexão profunda sobre as Escrituras — ruminar a Palavra dia e noite.
Meditar na Palavra dia e noite
Bem-aventurado o homem que medita na lei do Senhor de dia e de noite. Ele é como árvore plantada junto a ribeiros de águas.
Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of evil men. But his pleasure is in the law of the Lord; and in his law will he meditate day and night.
And the book of this law shall not depart out of thy mouth, and thou shalt meditate in it day and night, that thou mayest know how to do all the things that are written in it; then shalt thou prosper, and make thy ways prosperous, and then shalt thou be wise.
Frutos da meditação
A meditação produz entendimento, alegria e adoração. Quem medita na Palavra encontra direção, paz e renovação espiritual.
God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest.
And they forgot his benefits, and his miracles which he had shewed them; the miracles which he wrought before their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the plain of Tanes.
O Lord, bow thy heavens, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
or the price of the redemption of his soul, though he labour for ever,
And he smote their vines and their fig-trees; and broke every tree of their coast. He spoke, and the locust came, and caterpillars innumerable,