Sermon Tidbits

Today's sermon was on what it truly means to meditate on God's Word. I know the idea of meditating on the Word is something that is thrown around a lot and sounds good, but what really does it mean and how do we actually do it. Joshua 1:8 tells us,

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. (emphasis placed on meditate)

The hebrew word, hāgâ, is translated meditate in this passage. The word, hāgâ, is also the same word translated as growls in Isaiah 31:4,

For thus the Lord said to me, "As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey, and when a band of shepherds is called out against him he is not terrified by their shouting or daunted as their noise, so the Lord of hosts will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its hill. (emphasis added on growls)

This just reflects how when we meditate on the Word we need to be feasting on God's word, like the lion over its prey, savoring it bit-by-bit, and chewing on it day and night.