FAITH CAPSULE: Meditating enables focusing on God.

Joshua 1

One who diligently heeds the word of God will need to keep God’s word to gain the promise of God by meditating God’s word day and night.
Meditating on the word of God is not a casual engagement but demands intimacy with a conscious heart for God. Meditating is a non-stop day and night; it builds man to observing and obeying what God asks man to do. Deuteronomy 12:28 recorded what God says about observing and obeying, “Observe and obey all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.”
Meditation is not memorizing. Memorizing is like a decoration and it lacks the power to produce results. God required meditation because one can maintain a deep focus on one’s thoughts on the word of God, which in turn, produce results on a consistent basis. Believers that want to be built up must be consistent and unfailing in obeying the word of God. When man meditates is feeding on the word of God to engage the presence of God; and it is what makes obeying and doing what the word commands. Meditation creates the ability to deeply observe the word and will give you an eye to see clearly in the word. Clarity of seeing in the word will enable man to do according to what the word is saying.
Thrice in the Book of Joshua Chapter One, God emphasized the importance of meditation as the secret of success in the journey of life. Meditating the word of God should not be a one hour a day sacrifice, rather an all day and ongoing sacrifice. In meditating the word of God is the power to be preserved from enemy by overcoming plots of the wicked and the rebellion of the workers of iniquity. Psalm 64:1-2, “Hear my voice, O God, in my meditation; Preserve my life from fear of the enemy. Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the rebellion of the workers of iniquity.”
Meditation is focusing on the word of God.
In your daily living, if focused on the word of God, failure becomes impossible. Focusing on God’s word is not exempted from possibility of challenges of life, but it is certain that overcoming challenge is certain for one focused on God’s word. Psalm 34:19 is encouraging when is focused on as stated, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.”  Truth about focusing describes: Focusing is the central point of attention, and when one focuses on any issue or object from any point, there is clarity and better understanding. For example, no one can take a good picture with a camera without focusing. When a man purposed in his heart to meditate by focusing on the word of God, surely God will not leave such man.

Prayer for today: God alone can enable man to live life meditating His word. Ask Him to enable you.