I meditate on all your works and consider what your hands have done. I spread out my hands to you.
Psalm 143:4-6
Meditation is thoroughly Christian as it has been given by God and was practiced by Jesus (e.g. ‘consider the lilies’). It has been twisted by mystical faiths and taken on a dangerous path when ‘emptying one’s self’ is promoted, dangerous because empty space has to be filled with something and what fills the space may lead us away from God rather than towards Him.
We are increasing our furrows. We bring our meditation alongside the bible as a test, to prayer for even greater understanding expecting that our study of the scriptures, our waiting on God in prayer and our considered meditation will deliver us ever closer to the Joy of the Lord.
When we meditate on something, we do so because it either delights or intrigues us. It turns us with deeper understanding, gratitude and joy to a desire to be more united with the creator.
It is important then that we dig this furrow of meditation. It needs to become a cultivated habit, a discipline. To meditate is to question, what might this thing or event that has caught my attention tell me about God. Therefore we need to learn to take note of things, stop, think, question, meditate, wonder and spread our hands to God in joyful praise.