“Meditation is a middle sort of duty between the word and prayer,
and that respect to both. The word feedeth upon meditation,
and meditation upon prayer.
These duties must always go hand in hand;
meditation must follow hearing and precede prayer.
To hear and not to meditate is unfruitful.
We may hear and hear, but it is like putting a thing into a bag with holes—
It is rashness to pray and not to meditate.
What we take in by the Word we must digest by meditation
and let out in prayer.”
(Thomas Manton)
“What is meditation? Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and
thinking over, dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various
things that one knows about the works and ways and purpose and promise
of God. It is an activity of holy thought, consciously performed
in the presence of God, under the eye of God, by the help of God,
as a means of communion with God.”
(J.I. Packer)
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