Oct 15, 2023
586 By Constant Practice We Learn Good from Evil, A Guided Christian Meditation on Hebrews 5:11-14 with the Recenter With Christ app
The purpose of this podcast is to help you find more peace in your life and connect with the true source of peace, Jesus Christ.
Outline: Relaxation, Reading, Meditation, Prayer, Contemplation and Visualization.
Get into a place where you can sit comfortably and uninterrupted
for about 20 minutes.You should hopefully not be driving or
anything tensing or unrelaxing. If you feel comfortable to do
so, I invite you to close your eyes.
Guided Relaxation / Guided Meditation:
Breathe and direct your thoughts to connecting with God. Let your
stomach be a balloon inflate, deflate.
Scripture for Meditation
584
NRSVUE
11 We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear
to you because you no longer try to understand. 12 In fact, though
by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach
you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need
milk, not solid food! 13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an
infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness.14
But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained
themselves to distinguish good from evil.
ESV
11 About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since
you have become dull of hearing. 12 For though by this time you
ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic
principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, 13
for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of
righteousness, since he is a child. 14 But solid food is for the
mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by
constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Meditation:
We want the mercy of God. We rejoice when we think of His goodness.
We feel strong gratitude when we recognize what He has done to
forgive us when we come to Jesus as our Savior. Yet this
understanding is only the beginning of knowledge. Proverbs says the
fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. When we learn what God
has planned for us and we recognize what he is willing to do in our
lives it can inspire us to learn more than just those first
principles of the gospel. We learn more of His word.
We can be more nourished by that word. This can sustain us during the additional challenges that will come our way in life. And even more important than that, it teaches us more about God. The being most deserving of praise in the universe. As we spend time distinguishing His word it makes us more able to distinguish between right and wrong. We can avoid more pitfalls in life as we learn Gods ways. I’m your heart rejoice on the good news that God has more to teach you. Commit to learning everything He is willing to teach you.
Meditation of Prayer:
Pray as directed by the Spirit.
Dedicate these moments to the patient waiting, when you feel ready ask God for understanding you desire from Him.
Meditation of God and His Glory / Hesychasm:
I invite you to sit in silence feeling patient for your own faults and trials.
Summarize what insights you have gained during this meditation and meditate and visualize positive change in your life:
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