Do we really meditate on what we read in God's Word or do we just read it because we know we should? Today in my devotions I read about meditation - the way God intended it to be, not like the world and The New Age Movememt wants it to be. As I continue in my quest to become the woman God wants me to be, I am realizing that we need to do more than just read the Bible. We need to meditate on what we read - to think about it and what it means to us, to me, in this day and age. If we think on it and even memorize it (yes, you can do it), then it will become a part of us and then we have it when we need to use it. It says in Matthew 12:34, "Out of the overflow of our heart the mouth speaks". What is in our hearts comes out of our mouths. So, if junk is in our hearts, then junk will come out of our mouths; but if the Word of God is in our hearts, then the Word of God with come out when we speak. How do you think Jesus could reply to Satan in the wilderness like He did if He didn't know Scripture? We need to be able to do the same thing with Satan; we need to know what the Scripture says so that when we are tempted, we can say, "No, that's not right, this is what God says..." Let's not just read the Bible because we know we should, or because we want to look good in front of other Christians or because we want to rack up brownie points; let's read the Bible because we want it to change our lives and the only way it will do that is if we meditate on it and memorize it so it seeps into our very being and changes us from the inside out.

I am memorizing right now Proverbs 31:10-31 and Isaiah 54:5-6. I challenge you to memorize something too and to really think about what you read in God's Word. He may even speak to you through it!