Psalms 1:2 KJV
But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
My focus today has been on the word meditate.
Someone has said that the word meditate is similar to the word ruminate. A sheep or a cow chews his cud. His food is first taken into the part of the stomach called the rumen. The animal then later brings the food back up from the rumen to chew further before finally swallowing to be ingested. I have recently gotten a young calf. One of the things I am learned about the calf is that before it can be taken off milk or milk replacer it must develop its rumen. I have been providing the calf with feed, but not until recently did he eat much of it. While he would taste some of it, he was not yet ready to live on it. The books have said I should continue feeding the calf milk replacer until he eats at least two pounds of feed per day. In other words, he must learn to ruminate BEFORE he can be taken off the milk.
A lot of Christians never learn to ruminate upon the Word of God. They never take in enough of the Bible and place it in a place where they can bring it back up for more meditation later on in the day. The calf will eat his food and then later, in a moment of relaxation, chew his cud. We, on the other hand, live such busy lives that we either seldom read our Bibles or if we do read it, do not provide for a quiet time later to bring back up what we read and work on it in our minds for a while.
The result is that we are limited to only ingesting the "milk of the Word." We might hear some more meaty type messages, but we only get a nibble of it for ourselves because we have never developed the capacity to meditate and think deeper thoughts in our faith.
There is a process whereby some calves are never taken off of the milk before the slaughter. It's called veal. The calf is fed only milk or milk replacer until it has grown to a sufficient size for butchering. The meat from the animal is very tender but almost tasteless.
I think we have now developed whole church systems designed to minister to the milky Christians. The saints in these churches never develop in maturity; they just stay baby Christians.
God help me to meditate upon and lead others to meditate upon the Word of God.
But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
My focus today has been on the word meditate.
Someone has said that the word meditate is similar to the word ruminate. A sheep or a cow chews his cud. His food is first taken into the part of the stomach called the rumen. The animal then later brings the food back up from the rumen to chew further before finally swallowing to be ingested. I have recently gotten a young calf. One of the things I am learned about the calf is that before it can be taken off milk or milk replacer it must develop its rumen. I have been providing the calf with feed, but not until recently did he eat much of it. While he would taste some of it, he was not yet ready to live on it. The books have said I should continue feeding the calf milk replacer until he eats at least two pounds of feed per day. In other words, he must learn to ruminate BEFORE he can be taken off the milk.
A lot of Christians never learn to ruminate upon the Word of God. They never take in enough of the Bible and place it in a place where they can bring it back up for more meditation later on in the day. The calf will eat his food and then later, in a moment of relaxation, chew his cud. We, on the other hand, live such busy lives that we either seldom read our Bibles or if we do read it, do not provide for a quiet time later to bring back up what we read and work on it in our minds for a while.
The result is that we are limited to only ingesting the "milk of the Word." We might hear some more meaty type messages, but we only get a nibble of it for ourselves because we have never developed the capacity to meditate and think deeper thoughts in our faith.
There is a process whereby some calves are never taken off of the milk before the slaughter. It's called veal. The calf is fed only milk or milk replacer until it has grown to a sufficient size for butchering. The meat from the animal is very tender but almost tasteless.
I think we have now developed whole church systems designed to minister to the milky Christians. The saints in these churches never develop in maturity; they just stay baby Christians.
God help me to meditate upon and lead others to meditate upon the Word of God.
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