Meditation Monday, June 24, 2024

The Bible teaches us that it is good to meditate on God’s Word so that, as the Lord told Joshua, we “may be careful to do everything written in it” (Joshua 1:8). To meditate on it means that we are doing more than reading or comprehending it because we are dwelling on it, allowing it to stay on our minds and hearts throughout the day. This is a practice the Bible attributes to those who “delight” or “love” God’s Word and want the words of their mouths and meditation of their hearts to be pleasing in the sight of God (Psalm 1:2, 19:14, 119:97).

Meditation Monday is an opportunity for us to take a short passage of Scripture — no more than a few verses, consider what it means, and store it in our minds so that we think on it throughout the day and it make its way into our hearts and lives.

Here is today’s passage:

It’s Meditation Monday and a good opportunity for us to consider what trusting in God looks like.

The Proverbs are about wisdom and give us good insight into what living out one’s faith is supposed to look like (and often what it is not supposed to look like). Proverbs 3:5-6 gives us some sound advice and counsel that will help us in following Christ.

Trusting the Lord with all one’s heart means that they cannot trust their own hearts for guidance. Our hearts are not trustworthy because they tell us what we want to hear, permit us to do what we want, and lead us toward what we want (even if we do not intellectually know we want it). Trusting in the Lord is first recognizing that He is Lord and as such directs our paths, but it is also trusting in Him to steer our lives because we know we are blind to certain things.

To think that we can “lean” on our own understanding shows foolishness because we too often blind to how our desires or biases affect our decision making. We need help. This is why we see here that we are to “acknowledge” the Lord in “all [our] ways”: we need to submit to Him and put our life in His hands. This is a scary prospect because we like to be in control, but this is what faith is all about, “the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). Faith (or trust as we see in today’s passage) is trusting the God we cannot see to be able to steer us around or over or through whatever obstacles we are blind to. What looks like a detour to us is really Him making our paths straight and headed toward Him!

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"Before the Throne of God Above" from Revelation 4 (The KING is Coming) – Refresh & Restore | A JustKeithHarris.com Podcast

📖 Revelation 4:1–11In this episode of The King is Coming, Keith Harris and Jamie Harrison move beyond Jesus’s letters to the churches and into the next part of John’s vision. In Revelation 4, John is invited through an open door into heaven—and what he sees is the throne room of God.At the center of everything is a throne, and seated on it is the Lord in all His glory. From this point forward in Revelation, the throne becomes the focal point of the entire book.John describes the scene the best way he can: the brilliance of precious stones, a rainbow surrounding the throne, flashes of lightning and thunder, and a crystal-like sea before it. Surrounding the throne are twenty-four elders and four living creatures who never cease to worship the Lord.Together, Keith and Jamie discuss:✔️ Why Revelation 4 marks a shift from the letters to the churches to John’s heavenly vision✔️ What the throne room reveals about God’s authority and security over all things✔️ Why John uses comparisons (“like” and “as”) to describe the glory he sees✔️ The mystery of the twenty-four elders and what we can—and cannot—know✔️ The constant worship of the living creatures crying “Holy, holy, holy”✔️ Why heaven’s worship centers on God simply because He is worthyIn the throne room, everything points to one truth: God alone is worthy of worship.“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.” (Revelation 4:11)🔗 If you would like to see a written version of this podcast, complete with footnotes and cross-references, you can find it here.

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