Holy Cow

Good Morning My Beloved Ones,

     I pray that your first thought in the morning and your last thought at night are of the One who gave you life.

    Today I want to talk to you about “Holy Cow”.  Psalm 1:2 says “Blessed (supremely happy) is the man who delights in the law of the Lord, who meditates in it day and night.”  When is the last time you meditated on the word of God day and night? 

 Most of us crack our Bibles open on Sunday when the preacher tells us to or rush through our chapter a day, skipping over the genealogies so we can say we spent time in the Word.  Is it any wonder we aren’t as blessed (supremely happy) as we could be?

     What does it mean to meditate on the Word day and night?  When I hear the word “meditate” I picture a bald man in a white robe sitting cross-legged on the floor, palms

up on his knees, fingers making an “o” with the middle finger and thumb, chanting “ohm…”.  Is that what God wants us to do?

     Actually, the word meditate used in this scripture comes from the Hebrew word that means, “to chew the cud”. 

Instead of a bald swami, picture a cow

chewing grass, swallowing it into one of his four stomachs, then regurgitating it later to chew on it some more.  We could rewrite the scripture this way: “Supremely happy is the man who delights in the Word of God, who takes it in, chews it over, gets all the flavor out of it, then lets it remain deep inside him, but later brings that truth back up to think on it some more”.  That’s Biblical meditation.

     Psalm 119:11 says, “Thy Word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee.”  When we think about our heart, we usually picture the blood-pumping muscle in our chest or the center of our emotions (as in, “I love you with all my heart”), don’t we?  The Hebrew word for heart used here actually means “bowels”, or the place where digestion takes place.

     We aren’t just to crack open our bibles and follow along with preacher once a week or race through a passage so we can read the Bible cover to cover in a year.  We are to chew on it, think it over, squeeze all the goodness out of it, swallow it, hiding it in our heart, where we can digest it and let its nutrients give life to our being.  We are called, beloved ones, to be a holy cow – not the kind they worship in India – but one that meditates on the Word of God day and night.

May you be supremely happy, Raelynn