I first learned of meditation in the context of relaxation and focus when I was 16 and running 440 and cross-country. For the children in the audience, “440″ is “400 meters”. My coach, John Barnes, taught us to relax and focus just before races – to avoid burning energy with nervousness.
Later, while in the Air Force in SE Asia, I was exposed to more ideas and uses of meditation.
It was only recently that I encountered people who, it seems, need something to hate and consider meditation “un-Christian”. I don’t consider myself a Bible scholar, but I have read and studied enough to know that these people are badly mistaken.
This blog is about helping more people enrich their prayer-life through meditation. The blog’s sub-title is the first phrase of Psalms 46:10 –
A problem I and many others have is trying to “be still” when we pray. Days are usually filled and busy and when we stop for prayer, stopping the jabber in the back of our minds is tough. Those noises and thoughts and all aren’t just random. the whisperer is there, lurking in the shadows trying to keep us from the closer walk we seek; trying to keep us from the inspiration and strength God offers.
I found a great poem on “Meditations”
Satan’s Sunday
He followed me to church that day,
slipped in beside me,
nudged and whispered,
wanted me to focus on the draught,
the wind that wailed outside,
the toddler’s ceaseless chatter,
its mother’s shhhh ! !
Or someone’s hacking cough.
And then I thought -
none of my business, Satan.
Oh, God, how well the Whisperer knows
the way to interpose and give us other-focus
than what we come for !
For what we want to see
is not these things,
but Jesus.
More on this thought at blindinglight “Satan is the whisperer – the prowler. He trys to seduce us, and tempt us – So much that is evil, initially seems appealing.”
And here at Christian Resource Center – Bermuda “Do Satan’s modern disciples still use the half-truth, gossip plan to weaken and destroy innocent people? Indeed, whisperers are still around, and their campaigns have destroyed more souls than all the military engagements fought on the battlefields of earth.”
And lastly Sermon Notes
You are suffering because you’re not really a Christian
If God is so loving, why is He letting this happen to you (or your family)?
We need to recognize these as straight from the pit and renounce them as such. If we entertain such lies, hope will be crushed.
So, that’s where I’m coming from and what this blog’s about. I hope to be of service to you.
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