FAITH CAPSULE: Concentration is meditation while meditation is the focus on the thoughts of the Bible.
Joshua 1
The Psalmist testifies, “I have more understanding than all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my meditation.” (Psalm 119:99) With meditation operating understanding that is not of this world is sure to be manifested in one’s life. King David stated in Psalm 64:1, “Hear my voice, O God, in my meditation; Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.” It is evident that meditation is also a prayer avenue for a believer that understands the need to be constantly connected with God.
What does meditation mean to you? Meditation means to mumble or to speak to oneself. Meditation is what God commanded Joshua to do day and night with His law. What God says to him also speaks to us. Imagine speaking the word of God that you study to yourself- morning, afternoon and night time? What do you say to yourself? God meant His word when He gave it to Joshua three times in one chapter, stating, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” (Joshua 1:8)Meditating is what God says will give way to observing the word. With clear observation of the word, not doing the word will be impossible. To do the word is to enter into a prosperous way. God’s prescribed prosperous way will lead one to having good success. There is success and there is good success. Good success will last and not fail because it is God success. However, success is ordinary and it does not have a life of eternal. Remember, all that glitters is not gold, so is the truth that not all success is good. As a believer, enter into the word through focusing. Meditation is focusing the mind of scripture. Focus is the secret of failure impossibility; focus is the central point of attention. Focus is what will produce a clear necessary image unto distance from any point. In using a camera to take a picture, when there is no focus there will be no good picture. In word, when there is no meditation there will be no good picture (manifestation of what the word is supposed to be). Want a prosperous and good success as commanded by the word of God? Be consistently conscious of the truth that concentration is meditation while meditation is the focus on the thoughts of the Bible. Remember, the word of God is God.If you desire to be constantly connected to God, God will not leave you. Devote to meditation and God will deposit all the grace to be meditating in you.
Prayer for today:Ask God for the grace to be constant and consistent ion meditating His word.