Weeping is an expression of the heart. Many times, when your meditation brings you into the heart and mind of God, you begin to weep. Other times, you might weep for pure joy. There is something so cleansing when you have a time of weeping before the Lord. Sometimes, you might weep out of heartbreak as God shares with you that part of His heart and mind that weeps for a lost world, for the suffering of the world.
The Hebrew word for “meditate” in Psalm 1:2 is hagah (הגה), which has many usages. It is sometimes rendered as “to moan,” “to growl,” “to utter,” “to muse,” “to devise,” “to plot,” “to roar,” or “to imagine.” I can see “imagining” and “musing” as meditation, but what is this “moaning” and “roaring” business?
Meditation is more than just musing over something. It is intense concentration, focusing all of your attention on the Word of God. If you are to know God’s heart and mind, you must focus your own heart and mind on Him.
- Chaim Bentorah & Laura Bertone, Hebrew Word Study , Vol 2.
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