Meditation

Meditation is something that I have never thought of doing in my entire life, because I thought it was something that was only done when people wanted to be completely with God.  I never understood why people did it because God was always with us and He was never really absent, so why would you need to spend long periods of time with him.  Not till I talking with friends and reading Foster did I feel as though I had a new sense of understanding for meditation.  It can be many different things beside just spending time with God alone; its reading Scripture, listening to God and not talking at all, looking at creation and realizing God's work and looking at your life and seeing all God has done for you.

For meditation I decided to carry around a Scripture passage to read in times of struggle and times of frustration with worldly things.  I picked out Romans 12:1-3 but focused mostly on verse two. The passage says, "Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you."  This verse was said to me by a friend a while back when I was really struggling and not until reading it daily did I understand it fully.  I don't need to be who the world wants me to be, I just need to be the Christian woman that God wants and that is what I am striving for.