Meditate

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
    be acceptable in your sight,
    O Lord, my rock and my redeemer. Psalm 19:14

Lexicon :: Strong’s H561 – ‘ēmer – utterance commas beach, word, saying, promise, command

Lexicon :: Strong’s H1902 – higāyôn – Meditation, musing

I want my words to be pleasing to God. He has done such a work in my life in that area. I look at the transformation of my words, there are times I fall back into old patterns; but it is generally just a moment and not a ongoing spiral. I know that I am still work in progress.

As I wrote about meditation, I thought about how I challenged my clients who are in a negative thought cycle. They end up ruminating or meditating on the negative thoughts, I challenge them to shift to positive or at least neutral thoughts. When I look at this word in that light, what am I allowing in my heart? What am I meditating or ruminating on?

Often lately, I have ruminated on binging television shows. I use it to numb. It’s my heart that I need to be concerned with, both physically because I’m sedentary and spiritually because this is of no eternal value.