CHRISTIAN MEDITATION

'...three distinctives of Christian meditation: it is centred on the truth of God, moved by the love of God, and directed to the praise of God.' 

Edmund P Clowney, Christian Meditation, p.91. 

OUR SUNG PRAISE IS MEDITATION

'Through the centuries the rich Word of Christ, working in the meditating hearts of Christians, has produced the spiritual wisdom in which Christians have addressed one another in songs of exhortation and God in songs of praise. In spite of many detours into formalism or sentimentalism, the hymnody of the church has returned again and again to the richness of devotional meditation on the Word of the Lord. If Christians begin to understand the meditative nature of the praise together, their approach to the corporate praise of God would be transformed. The recovery of meditation will also bring a tide of fresh songs of praise. Motre Christians will begin to sing their meditations and to compose hymns of thanksgiving to the Lord for his mighty works of saving love.' 

Edmund P Clowney, Christian Meditation, p.80. 

THE WONDER OF THE GOSPEL DEMANDS MEDITATION

'Grace and meditation go together. If our relation to God were legalistic, we might computerize his commandments like a motor code so that meditation would be eventually unnecessary. But our minds cannot encompass the marvel of God's grace. The more we reflect, the more the wonder increases and we are drawn and driven to further meditation and worship.' 

Edmund P Clowney, Christian Meditation, p.48. 

CHRISTIAN MEDITATION

'Meditation reflects on the truth of God in the presence of God.' 

Edmund P Clowney, Christian Meditation, p.46. 

CHRISTIAN MEDITATION

'To seek the face of the living God the Christian does not launch a voyage in inner space nor does he enter of abstract infinity. Rather he mediates on Christ of the scripture and on the scripture of Christ. He fills his thoughts with what the Bible says about Jesus, for he is not attempting to imagine a Christ but to learn about the real Christ. The disciple who would learn from his Master must treasure is words.'  

Edmund O Clowney, Christian Meditation: What the Bible teaches about meditation and spiritual exercises, p.29.