Another word for meditation is rumination. Rumination is what a cow is doing when she chews her cud. The cow eats grass, chews all she can, and then swallows it. It sits in one of her stomachs for a while, and then a little later, she burps it up\u2014with renewed flavour. The cow chews on it some more and swallows it again. This process continues in all four stomachs. That\u2019s rumination. The cow is pulling every tiny bit of nourishment from the grass. And meditation is simply thought digestion.<\/i> <\/p>\n
Meditation doesn\u2019t mean putting your mind in neutral and thinking about nothing. On the contrary, it\u2019s thinking seriously about what you\u2019re reading. For example, you dwell on one verse of Scripture and ask, \u2018What does this mean for my life?\u2019 You talk to yourself about it and talk to God about it. <\/p>\n
The Bible says this: \u2018Keep your minds on whatever is true, pure, right, holy, friendly, and proper. Don\u2019t ever stop thinking about what is truly worthwhile and worthy of praise\u2026 And God, who gives peace, will be with you.\u2019<\/i> (Philippians\u00a04:8\u20139\u00a0CEV) Notice that we are to ponder different categories of things and, by implication, to avoid thinking about the opposite kind of things. <\/p>\n
Colossians 3:16 KJV says, \u2018Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly.\u2019<\/i> You need to spend time every day\u2014a minimum of ten to fifteen minutes\u2014where you sit down, read a portion of the Bible, and think deeply about what you have just read. Then talk to the Lord about it in prayer. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s the starting point for spiritual change and growth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Another word for meditation is rumination. Rumination is what a cow is doing when she chews her cud. The cow eats grass, chews all she can, and then swallows it. It sits in one of her stomachs for a while, and then a little later, she burps it up\u2014with renewed flavour. The cow chews on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}