The Bountiful Blessing of Biblical Meditation
Meditation is to the Christian life what digestion is to the body: without it, the processes which sustain life are greatly hampered – even rendered impossible. The Puritans held an extremely high view of the necessity of meditation. They saw it as one of the primary means by which we take the great truths of the faith and appropriate them, applying them to our hearts in order that we might love and treasure God more.
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– ‘Kindling the Fire of Meditation’, Dillon Thornton, Banner of Truth Magazine, Issue 591, December 2012.
– Excerpt from Charles Bridges, Psalm 119 (First pub. 1827; latest Banner of Truth rep. 2024), pages 249–251.
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– Excerpts from The Golden Treasury of Puritan Quotations, compiled by I. D. E. Thomas (First pub. 1975 [Moody Press]; latest Banner of Truth edition: 2022). Quotes mainly sourced from entries on ‘Meditation’.
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