‘And in His law he meditates Day and night.’ (Psalm 1:2)
“Grace breeds delight in God, and delight breeds meditation.
The proposition that results out of the text is this: a good Christian is a meditating Christian.
‘I will meditate in Thy precepts.’ (Psalm 119:15)
‘Meditate upon these things.’ (1 Tim. 4:14)
Meditation is the chewing upon the truths we have heard. The beasts in the old law that did not chew the cud, were unclean.
The Christian that does not by meditation chew the cud is to be accounted unclean.
Meditation is like the watering of the seed. It makes the fruits of grace to flourish.”
–Thomas Watson, “A Christian on the Mount, or a Treatise Concerning Meditation,” in Discourses on Important and Interesting Subjects, Being the Select Works of the Rev. Thomas Watson, Volume 1 (Edinburgh; Glasgow: Blackie, Fullarton, & Co.; A. Fullarton & Co., 1829), 1: 197.
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