![]() ![]() Meditation is the spiritual discipline that helps us to listen well and to hear correctly.Īt its most basic and fundamental level, Christian meditation is simply a loving attentiveness to God. His voice is not hard to hear his vocabulary is not difficult to understand. Jesus Christ is alive and here to teach his people himself. ![]() Jesus reminds us that he is the Good Shepherd and that his sheep know his voice. God’s “still small voice” can indeed be heard and understood. God speaks to us directly, heart to heart. God speaks to us through the action and activity of the Holy Spirit. God speaks to us through the “book” of nature. God speaks to us through the book of Scripture, the Bible. God uses various and sundry means for speaking and teaching. ![]() To use the graphic phrase of Dallas Willard, God is “our communicating cosmos.” God speaks and teaches we hear and obey. Christian meditation is the listening side of this interactive relationship. Prayer is the interactive relationship we have with God about what we and God are working on together. Excerpt from The Making Of An Ordinary Saint ![]()
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