Just like a cow eats grass and chews it we are to meditate on the Word of God. Psalm 1 talks about the blessed or happy man. In verse 2 it says,

Psalm 1:2

"But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in His law does he meditate day and night."

1. WHAT IS BIBLICAL MEDITATION?
Here is how meditation works. In the morning you have your Quiet Time and read your Bible. The Bible is like food. It is like honey, like bread, like water, like meat and like milk. Reading the Bible is like eating spiritual food. So you read the Bible and then you think about what you're read - you chew over it. And you receive it or swallow it. Then as time passes by, later on in the morning you remember what you read, you bring it up again and think about it again and chew on it again. That is meditating. And like the cow you can do this several times during the day.

Joshua 1:8 says ,

Joshua 1:8

"This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth but you shall meditate in it (the Word) day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. "

2. WHY DO WE MEDITATE ON GOD's WORD
This verse tells us the purpose of meditation. Listen again. "But you shall meditate in it day and night," why? "What you may observe to do according to all that is written in it." The purpose of meditation is application. We meditate in order to do it.

3. HOW DO WE MEDITATE
To meditate means to think about or to remember. In the Old Testament the Jews were even told to tie little leather boxes to their body. And in those boxes were written Scripture verses. These were similar to scripture memory cards that we have today. God wanted His people to remember and to meditate on Scripture.

Listen to what God told His people to do in Deuteronomy 6:6-9.

Deuteronomy 6:6-9

"And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart: And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up. And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house, and on your gates."

In other words, God says, keep My words in your heart. And have scripture verses hanging on the walls of your house.

Now some people read the Bible but don't know what to focus on, they don't know what to meditate on. Let me give you a little helpful tool to help as you meditate on God's word. This tool is called:

S.P.A.C.E. P.E.T.S.:
SPACE PETS has nine letters. Each of these letters represent a question that you can ask yourself as you read a passage of Scripture. Ask yourself, in this passage is there any

1. SIN TO (confess) ?

2. PROMISE TO (believe) ?

3. ATTITUDE TO (change) ?

4. COMMAND TO (obey) ?

5. EXAMPLE TO (follow) ?

6. PRAYER TO (pray) ?

7. ERROR TO (avoid) ?

8. TRUTH TO (receive) ?

9. SOMETHING TO (thank God for) ?

The word of God is very important. It is the way God speaks to us today. We need to get a handle on the Word of God. We need to know it well. We need to be able to use it. In closing, let me show you how to get a five-finger grip on the Word of God.

First we are to HEAR the Word of God. Romans 10:17 says that "Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God."