Meditation is not a strange noise made by Catholic monks who have fallen into a trance. The word itself means "reflection or devotion, in a prayerful state of mind." Here is what Spurgeon had to say about meditation:
"I quarry out the Truth when I read, but I smelt the ore and get the pure gold out of it when I meditate!...For lack of meditation the Truth of God runs by us and we miss and lose it. Our treacherous memory is like a sieve—and what we hear and what we read runs through it and leaves but little behind—and that little is often unprofitable to us by reason of our lack of diligence to get thoroughly at it. I often find it very profitable to get a text as a sweet morsel under my tongue in the morning and to keep the flavor of it, if I can, in my mouth all day!" - C. H. Spurgeon
I have found that my greatest memories of communion in His Word do not come from the times that I read through the Bible swiftly. Rather, my greatest times of communion have been times of solemn, reflective meditation upon His Word.
