As we learn to meditate, we discover how to observe ourselves with compassion and until we can actually draw life from this serene inner awareness and acceptance. Until we could finally look at ourselves with the eyes of God.
What really happens when we meditate is being so still and letting God gaze at us, in a way that only God can – with infinite mercy, love, and compassion. God initiates a positive gaze, which eventually goes in both directions. Unfortunately, we seldom allow this to happen.
As we receive God’s compassionate gaze in meditation, all negative energy is slowly revealed and will eventually drop off as damaging and useless. If we resort to any form of self-shaming, we return to being defensive and in denial. We will be unable to “know as fully as we are known” (1 Corinthians 13:12).
Meditation is life-changing. It is connecting with the Indwelling Presence, where the “Spirit bears common witness with our spirit” (Romans 8:16.) God and His grace initiate meditation, and once we learn to rest there, nothing less will ever satisfy us.
Ephesians 3:19 “and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”
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