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Sometimes I’m amazed at the chasm that stands between my morning quiet time and the rest of the day. You know what I mean? At times, there seems such a huge breach between Scripture and the real world.
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Drinking deeply of the Word of God in the early morning hours, I express in prayer my love for the Lord, His Word, and His church. It’s all good.
But then I leave the house.
It doesn’t take long for the day to begin jerking at my coat, pulling, tugging, and trying to drag my heart away from all I believe and am firmly convinced of. It’s like God is on the far rim of the Grand Canyon.
Sometimes the real world seems to have such a disconnect from our quiet time:
It’s tough to put our finger on why the chasm exists at all.
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Part of the reason the chasm stands there comes because we often define our spiritual lives by our emotional lives. If we feel good about our day, then we see ourselves as spiritual. But it’s not necessarily that way.
The problem, of course, is our actions often follow our feelings—not our faith. We respond to the tug on our sleeves from the world. We hear the loud demands of our day rather than the truth we affirmed during our quiet time.
How can we close that gap?
The best way to bridge the gap and retain the truth of our morning quiet time throughout the day comes through meditation.
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Meditation allows you to take the Word of God with you all throughout the day. It emblazons the pages of Scripture in the folds of your brain. Here’s how:
Determine to think about that one truth literally all day long. This is meditation—and it will transform your thinking and your life.
Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things. —Philippians 4:8
When you feel the pull toward the other side of the Grand Canyon, it’s time to meditate on truth again. Meditation requires a continual effort to develop the habit of thinking biblically all day long. Filter everything through the truth you know:
Filter all these things through the truths of the Scriptures and not your feelings and your emotions. Filtering through your feelings causes you to act in ways you’ll regret.
The ultimate goal of meditation is the renewal of the mind. It closes the broad chasm between your quiet time and your crazy life.
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