Episode 386: I’m Talkin…Meditate

I’m Talkin’, episode 386 for September 7th, 2025.

This is Joel from the I’m Talkin’ microcast, where I share my thoughts on a topic that has piqued my interest this past week.

This week, we’re talking meditate.

So when you think of the word meditate, it’s a matter of what are you meditating on and what’s the purpose for meditation and what does it look like in today’s world?

Well, I think in today’s world, when we meditate, it’s more of a self-focused type of work.

It’s how do we get better?

How do we clear our minds to think better about our future, to improve ourselves, to increase, I don’t know, self-awareness, self-esteem, self-love.

But it feels like in today’s world that when we meditate, we are focused on ourselves.

And therein lies the challenge for those of us who call ourselves Christians.

So the Bible that we believe in as Christians is often called meditation literature, and then inside it, there are smaller sections, and there’s a section that we call the wisdom literature of the Bible, often focused around Psalms and Proverbs.

And these are scriptures that are written for us as Christians to meditate on.

The whole Bible, I think, is that way, but I think in the wisdom literature, there’s even more opportunity for us to meditate on who God is.

And so when we think of the word meditate as Christians, we’re thinking of not ourselves or what we can do better, but who God is, what he’s done, what he’s done for us, and what that makes us want to be.

And we do that through the power of the Holy Spirit.

So the focus is quite different than that of the world.

We focus on who God is.

We focus on what God has done.

It’s like the verse that I mentioned a couple weeks ago, fix your thoughts on what is true and lovely and pure.

Think of things that are excellent and worthy of praise.

That’s meditation for a Christian.

And so what brought that to mind is I was thinking of what is my next set of podcasts gonna be about, and I’ve decided to add to the memory verses that I quoted last year, the verses of Psalm 23.

And I’m sure I’ve maybe memorized that in my past.

I know it’s a very familiar passage to those of us who are Christians, but over the next few weeks and however long it takes and whatever podcasts I get out of it, I’m gonna challenge myself and challenge my audience to use it as meditation literature.

And if we meditate on who God is, if we meditate on what God has done, if we meditate on the enormity of the God we serve, we will indeed become better people.

Until next week, this is Joel from the I’m Talking Microcast.