A Meditation on Feeling God’s Goodness and Steadfast Love In Your Body from Psalm 118:1

My goal in this podcast — Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life — is to help 21st-century Christians in the always distracted digital age — to connect with God with your whole being — including your body — and to wire into your brain the reality of that embodied connection in each moment. And I think most of us as Christians are often living unconsciously anxious and tense lives with a kind of disconnection between our body and mind, and disconnection between our body and God’s Spirit. Where our “Christian faith” has become almost exclusively about certain beliefs rather than an embodied experience with God’s Spirit who is always 100% present with us and in us in the NOW. If your podcast app is set to skip the silent sections, disable that in your podcast app for this podcast. This is a time for you to meditate. To be quiet — free from all the noise and digital distractions in your life. This is a time for you to be alone. This is a quiet time to re-integrate your body with the rest of your soul, and re-calibrate your body and soul with God’s presence. This is an ancient discipline. A time to be intentional with your mind’s focus so that you can find a moment of rest. Of quiet. Of calm. Renewal.  Christian Meditation is an ancient practice God’s people have been doing for thousands of years. A biblical synonym for contemplate is to meditate. Biblical meditation is a focused imagination that “contemplates the LORD’s glory,” and brings transformation by recalibrating your whole self, including your body, with God’s Spirit. It’s a daily discipline that’s part of what Romans 12:2 refers to as being transformed by the renewing of your mind. 2 Corinthians 3:18 (NIV) When you think of God’s glory, what do you think of? The night sky? Photos of the universe? A mountain range of some kind? A sunset over the ocean? Or maybe you think of God being God forever. Often when the biblical authors thought of God’s glory, they thought of his trustworthiness. That his glory and his trustworthiness went hand-in-hand. Psalm 118:1 ES