January 17, 2016 · Philippians 4:8

Re-store: Remediation via Meditation - Psalm 119 Beth

“This also means, by the way, that we can pray without ceasing. Do you ever find that verse huh, pray without ceasing? Well, if your mind is going, you're praying. If you start to think about your thoughts, obviously it's going to be times where you dedicate your thought, you're praying to God, you're speaking out loud. But you're always there with God, and if you start to think about your thought life as trying to bring it on track, starting to think about things that are true and lovely and pure, then you start to understand thought as prayer. And Latin the word aratio can mean both like a sentence, like a spoken thing, as well as prayer. I love that. ambiguity. What would happen if we started thinking about all of our thoughts as prayer? We need to tune our minds to God. We need to be attenuated to God, pay attention to God, and if we do this, we start to recognize that this instrument is ready for the rough times when it hits. We're ready to already see that God is still there. We can still be thankful to God in the middle of crises. In meditation, the good that we encounter in life helps us recalibrate, and here's the standard. I love the words here. Truth. Elatia. Truth is basically reality. Just meditate on what's really real. Now truth is ultimately God himself. Anything that is real is real within God and changes you.”