It is not necessary for us to find new ideas in our meditation. Often that only distracts us and satisfies our vanity.It is perfectly sufficient if the Word enters in and dwells within us as we read and understand it.As Mary "pondered...in her heart" what the shepherds told her (Luke 2v19), as a person's words often stick in our mind for a long time - as they dwell and work within us, preoccupy us, disturb us, or make us happy without our being able to do anything about it - so as we meditate, God's Word desires to enter in and stay with us. It desires to move us, to work in us, and to make such an impression on us that the whole day long we will not get away from it.Then it will do its work in us, often without our being aware of it.
~ from Life Together 88
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