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Just as Heat Sets the Soft Clay

Thomas Watson once warned that “the reason we come away so cold from reading the Word is because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.” So what is this meditation that he deems so important? It is crucial we distinguish it from a fraudulent form that is increasingly popular today. Christians are not to engage in the meditation of Eastern religions that involves emptying the mind that it may be filled with a kind of self-knowledge. Rather, the meditation the Bible commends invol