A Meditation on Freeing Your Body from the Weight of Guilt

Christian Meditation is a quiet time for you to re-integrate and re-calibrate your mind with your body. And re-integrate and re-calibrate your mind and body with God‘s presence with you and in you. Remember the quote from the apostle Paul in Acts 17:28 – In him you live and move and have your being. If your podcast app is set to skip the silent sections, disable that in your podcast app for this podcast. This is a time set aside to experience God in a way that reintegrates your mind, heart, and body connection and replaces stress and anxiety and worry and insecurity with the peace and joy and assurance of God’s love and promises for you in Christ.  We’re carving out a quiet time to be alone with God. Using meditation to reintegrate and recalibrate your mind and heart AND your body with the vertical reality of God’s presence with YOU, and God’s promises for YOU. Our body is an important part of who we are. And it is a common place where we store our stress and anxiety and insecurity. In Psalm 38 David talks about how being out of sync with God affected his body. Psalms 38:3-10 (NIV) 3 Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin. 4 My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear. 5 My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly. 6 I am bowed down and brought very low; all day long I go about mourning. 7 My back is filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body. 8 I am feeble and utterly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart. (Stress, anxiety) … 10 My heart pounds, my strength fails me; even the light has gone from my eyes. Sin is when we live out of sync with the reality of who God is and the world that he has made and his purpose for our lives in it. God‘s wrath is when he lets us experience the consequences of that that are real and painful. In this case the consequences show up in David’s body.  Guilt is the torment of our conscience that it feels the weight of our accountability and responsibility for that. O