Meditate on Jesus, the Living Word Made Flesh

If circumstances warrant, we ask our wives or friends to join us in morning meditation. If we belong to a religious denomination which requires a definite morning devotion, we attend to that also. If not members of religious bodies, we sometimes select and memorize a few set prayers which emphasize the principles we have been discussing. There are many helpful books also. Suggestions about these may be obtained from one's priest, minister, or rabbi. Be quick to see where religious people are right. Make use of what they offer. (AA, pg 87)

 

Prayer and meditation, according to AA, takes place at set times in our day.

 

The Word of God offers something better:

 

"1Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

 

"2But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night." (Psalm 1: 1-2)

 

We can meditate on His Law, because He has written His laws in our hearts and minds because of the Holy Spirit:

 

"10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

"11And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. "12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." (Hebrews 8: 10-12)

By seeing more of Jesus Christ in our lives, we meditate on the Living Word (1 Peter 1: 23), or the Word made flesh (John 1: 14).