The Power of Right Meditation

(Steve Matson – Lead Pastor)

I am currently reading a book that I just picked up at a conference – Dangerous Calling by Paul David Tripp. I came across the following insight and immediately thought about its relevance to our study of I Peter and the topic of being purified and strengthened through times of suffering.  So I offer to you these words of insight looking into Romans 4.  I hope they will be of encouragement.

“Romans 4 tells us something very significant about Abraham’s heart.  Think about it: when you and I are called by God to wait for an extended period as Abraham was, often for us our story of waiting is a chronicle of ever-weakening faith. The longer we have time to think about what we are waiting for, the longer we have time to consider how we have no ability to deliver it; and the longer we have to let ourselves wonder why we have been selected to wait , the more our faith weakens.  But not so Abraham.  We’re told in this passage that during this time of protracted waiting, his faith actually great stronger, and the passage tells us why.  Rather than meditating on the impossibility of his situation, Abraham meditated on the power and character of the One who had made the promise.” (page 65)