A Meditation on Why You Need Just One Thing from Psalm 27:4

If your podcast app is set to skip the silent sections, disable that in your podcast app for this podcast. Psalms 27:4 NIV Poetic, imaginative language. David is using his imagination because there was no physical temple in David’s time. We can experience God’s temple that way too, but not about some earthly temple. Genesis 1 presents all of creation as God’s temple. And the last two chapters of the Bible do the same. This is the ultimate promise of the whole Bible’s story. That one day when Jesus returns to bring heaven back to earth, all the earth will be God’s temple.  For us, to dwell in the house of the LORD is to belong in his family, and to one day live with the joy and wonder and awe of his visible presence. To experience “the beauty of the LORD.”  But for now, like David, we can experience this ultimate joy and wonder and awe for our lives through Christian meditation. Using our imagination — the eyes of our heart.  John Mark Comer “Worship and joy start with the capacity to turn our minds’ attention toward the God who is always with us in the now.” Daniel Levitin in his book, This Is Your Brain on Music, writes… “Petr had just completed a study in which he kept track of people’s brain waves while they listened to music and while they imagined music. He used EEG, placing sensors that measure electrical activity emanating from the brain across the surface of the scalp. Both Petr and I were surprised to see that it was nearly impossible to tell from the data whether people were listening to or imagining music. The pattern of brain activity was virtually indistinguishable. This suggested that people use the same brain regions for remembering as they do for perceiving.” Envisioning God being with us and in us is a kind of seeing with what Paul calls “the eyes of our heart“ in Ephesians 1:17-18.  Christian meditation is a time to spiritually focus your mind and your body on God‘s presence and all that that means for you.  Psalms 27:4 NIV Right now you are in the temple of the LORD by being inside his creation