Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible states ” Meditation, to ponder, CONVERSE WITH ONESELF and hence aloud. To attend to, to practice, to practice is the prevalent sense of the word, to imagine, ponder (reflection”). Hebrew section, reference number 7878 as found in Psalm Chapter 119:15, 23,48, 78, and 148 and others. The word ponder means to think about something carefully, in this case the word of God.
The words of God are the thoughts of his heart to all generations. Psalm 33:11 It is an honor to take the thoughts of God’s heart to us, now, and put them into our mind, (memorize) and then our heart, by thinking and saying them out loud over and over. (See Psalm 45:1) Where David wrote by inspiration of the Holy Spirit (“my tongue is the pen of a ready writer”). And the ” Spirit of Truth, guides us into all truth,” John 16:13.
There are many benefits to meditating on God’s word, here is just one of them, II Peter 1:4 “Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that BY THESE you might be partakers of the divine nature”.
“He that saith he abideth in him (him Jesus, the Word of God) ought himself also so to walk even as he walked”. I John 2:6. The Greek word for meditate and imagine, are the same word “meletao” 3191 in Strong’s.
Meditate – to converse with oneself.
Imagine – to picture to oneself.
But this is a subject for another time.
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