Meditate Day and Night

Meditating, in the biblical sense, has nothing to do with emptying your mind. It's the opposite — it's filling your mind with God's Word and letting it work inside you.

It's like chewing your food slowly instead of gulping it down. You don't read to check a box, you read to absorb. You carry a verse with you all day, coming back to it while you wash the dishes, while you wait at a red light, before you fall asleep.

Psalm 1 makes a beautiful promise for those who live this way: that person will be like a tree planted by rivers of water, bringing forth fruit in its season, whose leaves do not wither. In other words, there's a stability that comes from having the Word live inside you.

You don't need to be a theologian to meditate. Just take a verse and ask: what does this say about God? What does this say about me? What changes in my life because of this? And let the answers keep coming throughout the day.