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“LET NO ONE DECEIVE HIMSELF…” 1 Cor. 3:18

“THIS BOOK OF THE LAW SHALL NOT DEPART FROM YOUR MOUTH BUT YOU SHALL
MEDITATE IN IT DAY AND NIGHT, THAT YOU MAY OBSERVE TO DO ACCORDING TO ALL
THAT IS WRITTEN IN IT. FOR THEN YOU WILL MAKE YOUR WAY PROSPEROUS, AND THEN

YOU WILL HAVE GOOD SUCCESS.” Joshua 1:8
“I WILL MEDITATE ON YOUR PRECEPTS…I WILL MEDITATE ON YOUR STATUTES…

OH, HOW I LOVE YOUR LAW! IT IS MY MEDITATION ALL THE DAY…
THAT I MAY MEDITATE ON YOUR WORD” Psm. 119:15, 48, 97, 148

“FINALLY BRETHREN, WHATEVER THINGS ARE TRUE…NOBLE…JUST…PURE…LOVELY…OF
GOOD REPORT… VIRTUE…PRAISEWORTHY…MEDITATE ON THESE THINGS…
AND THE GOD OF PEACE WILL BE WITH YOU.” Phil. 4:8-9

“TO CHEW THE CUD”
“A PRIVATE DEVOTION OF SPIRITUAL EXERCISE CONSISTING

IN DEEP CONTINUED REFLECTION ON A RELIGIOUS
THEME…TO MUSE OVER, PONDER, CONTEMPLATE, REFLECT
UPON…INTROSPECTION, SELF-EXAMINATION OF ONE’S LIFE

IN LIGHT OF THE PATTERN OF THE SCRIPTURES…” Webster

I must STUDY God’s Word so that no one deceives me, but I must
also MEDITATE in the Word in order that I do not deceive myself.
Meditation is for introspection of self. The process of meditation makes this edge of
God’s two-edged sword to be like a skilled surgeon’s knife which often must wound in
order to bring forth healing. Paul instructs the believer to be very introspective:

“EXAMINE AND TEST AND EVALUATE YOUR OWN SELVES,
TO SEE WHETHER YOU ARE HOLDING TO YOUR FAITH

AND SHOWING THE PROPER FRUITS OF IT. TEST AND PROVE YOURSELVES.”
2 Cor. 13:5 Amplified Bible

Take the time to “meditate” in these passages from “SO GET RID OF ALL
James UNCLEANNESS AND THE
RAMPANT OUTGROWTH OF
We all use mirrors every day to examine our physical WICKEDNESS, AND IN A
appearance. God’s Word is a mirror that examines our HUMBLE (GENTLE, MODEST)
spiritual appearance. Meditation looks hard and long at SPIRIT RECEIVE AND WELCOME
what God’s Word reveals about ourselves. We are to
embrace change of what we are shown that is not THE WORD WHICH IS
according to God’s Word. There is another passage IMPLANTED AND ROOTED
that depicts the Word of God as a mirror. In it we are [IN YOUR HEARTS] CONTAINS
shown “the glory of God” and are called to be ever- THE POWER TO SAVE YOUR
changing into that very image from one degree of glory SOULS. BUT – OBEY THE
to another. Note that it is the work of God’s Spirit in us: MESSAGE; BE DOERS OF THE
WORD, AND NOT MERELY
“AND ALL OF US, AS WITH UNVEILED FACE, LISTENERS TO IT BETRAYING
[BECAUSE WE] CONTINUED TO BEHOLD (IN THE YOURSELVES [INTO DECEPTION
WORD OF GOD) AS IN A MIRROR THE GLORY OF THE BY REASONING CONTRARY TO
LORD, ARE CONSTANTLY BEING TRANSFIGURED INTO THE TRUTH]. FOR IF ANY ONE
ONLY LISTENS TO THE WORD
HIS VERY OWN IMAGE IN EVER INCREASING WITHOUT OBEYING IT AND
SPLENDOR AND FROM ONE DEGREE OF GLORY TO BEING A DOER OF IT, HE IS
LIKE A MAN WHO LOOKS
ANOTHER; [FOR THIS COMES] FROM THE LORD CAREFULLY AT HIS (OWN)
[WHO IS] THE SPIRIT.” 2 Cor. 3:18 Amplified Bible NATURAL FACE IN A MIRROR;
FOR HE THOUGHTFULLY
We meditate on the image of Jesus in the mirror in
Corinthians, but we look at our own image in the mirror found OBSERVES HIMSELF,
THEN GOES OFF AND
in James. Careful comparative meditation is the key to PROMPTLY FORGETS
narrowing the gap that exists between the two. WHAT HE WAS LIKE.”

James 1:21-24
Amplified Bible