Another major spiritual exercise is meditation on what God has written in the Bible. One of the tragedies of our day is that meditation is linked more to non-Christian systems of belief— Eastern mysticism —than it is with Biblical Christianity.

There is a vast difference between, say, transcendental meditation and Biblical meditation. Meditation is deep, focused thinking. Christian meditation means spending time reading and thinking about what you have read. It means asking yourself how you should change so you are living as God wants. Knowing and meditating on God’s word are the first steps toward applying it to your everyday life.

If you want to follow God more closely, you must know what he says. Those seeking to live under God’s blessing meditate on God’s word in order to know God by revelation and to shape their thinking, attitudes and actions. They read the words of scripture, ponder them and compare them with other scriptures. Through meditation believers commune with God and are thereby renewed spiritually.

Meditation involves taking a text, putting it like a sweet on your tongue and holding it there until you have sucked every precious drop of spiritual liquid from it. The added exercise of meditation acts like bellows on a little flame and transforms it into a blazing fire.

(2.0)Method and Process for Adoring Contemplation
Do not let a day pass without you spending at least 15-20 minutes in Adoration of God. Find a quiet place where you can be alone and remain still without any distractions. While “gazing” at God, rejoice at the privilege of knowing God who has revealed Himself to us and has adopted us as His children even while we were still sinners. Can you imagine the worthlessness of trying to worship an “unknown God?” Take time each day to be still, reverently honouring Him and His power and majesty.

Adoration is not to glance at God, but to gaze on God. “Gaze” means to look steadily at somebody (or something) for a long time, either because you are very interested or surprised, or because you are thinking of something. “Gazing” in adoration of God is not gazing aimlessly into space nor with hearts and thoughts far from God. Adoration is gazing fixedly into the eyes of God in adoration and admiration of His nature and character. Adoration is not gazing at yourself nor at your problems; adoration is gazing at our God who is real, alive and powerful. Adoration of God means looking at God full in the face and that means contemplating Him, spending time with Him, adoring Him for who He is, what He has done, what He is doing, and what He will do.

Who he is means His glory, His nature and character—His attributes, and what His name conveys.

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