Read the Word and believe in the Lord, and you will see the truths which should constitute your faith and life. Everyone whose soul desires is capable of seeing the truths of the Word in light. (Apocalypse Revealed 224:3)
Enlightenment through the Word comes by an inward route. (De Verbo 13)
So what’s in the Word for us? To put it briefly: the opportunity to enter into a living relationship with the Lord.
The addition of this column was inspired by Alanna Rose’s article, “Meditate on the Word of God.” After reading her article I began to practice daily what she suggests. Each day I read a few numbers from Secrets of Heaven and write down any sentences or phrases that strike me. I choose one or two of these and sit for meditation, concentrating on the passages and what they mean. In time, the passage, like the bud of a flower, begins to unfurl itself in my mind, releasing sweet scents and radiant colors. I take the time after meditation to write down what has come to me.
It is so easy for me to read the Word, get momentarily inspired, close the book, and then completely forget the gist of what I read. Taking the time to sit with a passage in my mind seems to plant it just deep enough that it seems to make a positive impact on the way my mind works throughout the rest of the day.
To conclude, I share the following passage because it describes an essential element of a genuine meditation practice: put simply, the intention to live what is learned.
A person is enlightened if he shuns evils because they are sins, and because they are against the Lord and His Divine laws. In his case and no others the spiritual mind is opened; and the more it is opened, the more the light of heaven enters; and all enlightenment from the Word is due to the light of heaven. For then a person has a will for good, and when this will is directed to this purpose, it becomes in the intellect first an affection for truth, then a perception of truth, next by means of the light of reason thinking about truth, and so a decision and conclusion. As this passes thence into the memory and so also into the way he lives so as to become permanent, this is the path which produces all enlightenment on the Word. (De Verbo 12)
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