Summary:

This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. I’m Dave Cover. I want to help you with Christian meditation where you can break through all the distractions and experience God’s presence through biblically guided imagination. 

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This is our last episode of 2024 as we take a break for the holidays. 

Psalms 63:6 (ESV) King David writes…

“…I remember you upon my bed,

and meditate on you ...”

Hebrew: “Mindful of”  

Hebrew: “Imagine”

So what this is telling us is that “mindfulness” and “meditation” are ancient biblical disciplines that God’s people have been practicing for thousands of years.

Being mindful of God doesn’t mean trying to picture God. It means using your biblically guided imagination to envision what the Bible tells us is true about God. 

And all that that means for you in how you envision/narrate your life and your future. 

Christian meditation puts our imagination and therefore our body back into the truer narrative/story…

Psalms 20:7 (ESV)

“Some trust in chariots and some in horses,

but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

(“Mindful of”)

Let’s be mindful of God’s name: HE IS— 

Creator

Source of all life 

Sustainer

Eternal

Infinitely present

In Acts 17 the Apostle Paul is talking to pagan philosophers in Athens. So he is using very general language. But everything he says is part of the gospel. That's what he's doing. He's preaching the gospel.

So this is something that we as Christians need to envision as a promise of the gospel, a foundational truth about God and our lives. 

So Paul says in Acts 17:24-25, “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth.” And then in the next verse, he says, “And he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.”

Then in verse 28 he says, “In him we live and move and have our being.“

The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth. The universe. HE IS.

And he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. God is the one who gives you your life, your very breath right now. HE IS.

In him you live and move and have your very being. He is giving you life right now. HE IS your breath of life right now in this breath. And he gives you everything else in your life. Everything in your life ultimately comes from his hand. HE IS.

And so you have to decide if you're going to trust the God who made everything in heaven and on earth. Everything in this universe comes from him. He created the entire universe of a trillion galaxies. He is all-powerful. And yet he is a God of steadfast love and intimate, infinite focus on you to the very hairs of your head, Jesus says in Matthew 10. So you can trust God with your life, even in stressful times.

Psalms 20:7 (ESV)

“Some trust in chariots and some in horses,

but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

(“Mindful of”)

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