Door to meditation and liberation
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(A) Commenting on quote re Psychiatrist Carl Jung: The Psychiatrist may have been exposed to teachings via his religion that ‘hurry’ is actually the devil itself. I differ with him, and must point out that according to the teachings of the bible, which is the word of God; the devil, otherwise known as Satan, is a fallen angel who is now at work in the world devising how he may sway and persuade people from serving God. (Isaiah 14: 12-17) and (1Peter 5:8) Hurry, nevertheless, may be a vice which the devil uses to distract many from spending quality time with God on a daily basis. That quiet time communing with God is very essential to our Christian growth. We see that God, in the cool of the day, visited with Adam and Eve in the garden. (Gen. 3: 8) God is ready to commune with us when we are not too busy, and we make time to be with Him.
(B) Readily, these men come into focus, who, although they were not equipped for leadership at the top, yet they responded to the call upon their lives, and God equipped and used them to accomplish the unthinkable. They are: Moses, Joshua, King David, Noah, Isaiah the Prophet and others who had committed their lives to God and therefore, were used mightily.
(C) It is clear that both these ideas are not in any way compatible. While the eastern religion’s form of meditation is an attempt to empty the mind of anything that is clogging ones clear thinking, this is only a temporary fix which, in the end, gives space to the accumulation of even more thoughts that are counter to the work of the spirit in one’s life. Christian meditation however, will allow for the filling of the mind with those thoughts that lead to the purging of the inner-person and allowing for real change in one’s life. As stated in (Col. 3:9,) we put off the old man with his deeds!
(D) As we seek daily to know God’s will for our lives by prayer and the studying of His Word, we will experience a cleansing and an emptying of one ’s self. This should not stop there. We must seek to be filled by His Spirit. ‘‘Putting on the new man and His deeds.’’ To leave the room of the heart vacant after it has been cleansed, is an invitation to the enemy to take possession and rule the house.(Luke 11: 24-26) Let us allow the work of the spirit to be made manifest in our lives to the glory of God.