Meditation in the Spiritual Life

The General Message of the Lecture

This lecture revolves around the concept of spiritual meditation and its importance in the life of a believer, as a transition from a superficial sensory view to spiritual depth, where a person sees God’s hand and care in everything around him and transforms material things into spiritual lessons that lead to growth in faith.

First: What Is Meditation?

Meditation is a deep outlook that goes beyond ordinary thinking and the senses. It may be mental or spiritual. It is either a gift from God, a fruit of the work of the Holy Spirit in the heart and mind, or a personal effort by which a person transforms material scenes into spiritual meanings.

Second: Meditation in the Holy Bible

Meditation has biblical roots, such as Isaac meditating in the field and Christ’s call to meditate on the lilies of the field and the birds of the sky. True spiritual reading does not stop at reading the text but enters into its depth to extract lessons and apply them to life.

Third: Extracting Spiritual Meanings from Material Things

The spiritual person does not stop at the beauty of a flower or the sight of a bird but moves to meditate on God’s care, power, and love. Everything in daily life can become a field for spiritual meditation.

Fourth: Meditation Is the Work of the Heart and the Mind Together

Meditation requires a prepared heart and an open mind to receive divine knowledge. The Holy Spirit works in a person to enrich his mind and grant him meditations during reading, prayer, walking, or contemplating events.

Fifth: Meditation Is Not Limited to Saints

Every person has the capacity for meditation, but the difference lies in the direction of this capacity: either toward sin or toward spiritual matters. What is required is to direct meditation to become nourishment for the soul, not a cause of its fall.

Sixth: Multiple Fields of Meditation

Meditation includes nature, the attributes of God, verses of the Holy Bible, virtues, the lives of the saints, the Psalms, historical events, God’s providence, and heaven and eternity. The Church places before the believer wide fields for daily meditation.

Seventh: Meditation Leads to Spiritual Depth

Meditation is an entry into the depth of the divine word, mixing it with the heart, mind, and spirit, until the verse becomes life and produces renewed meanings that satisfy the soul and enlighten spiritual insight.

Conclusion

Spiritual meditation is a fertile path for growth in faith. It frees a person from superficiality, enables him to see God present in everything, and turns his entire life into a continuous spiritual school.

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