GUIDELINES
Here are guidelines for meditating on Bible Verses
These are some activities that have helped me.
You can experiment with them.
Adapt them to your own style and schedule.
I download a set of colorful verses from the web site to my computer.
I open it in Acrobat Reader and reduce the screen to a portion for current focus.
For example I display only 8 verses of Psalm 119 at a time.
First clicking on the double boxes in the upper right corner can do this.
Then in the lower right corner left click and hold while moving the cursor up.
I keep this adjusted view open throughout the day and night on my home computer.
Then with a quick click I just switch over to the meditation verses for the day.
I use this like a spiritual snack between emails, web surfing and other projects.
In the morning, as part of my quiet time routine, I select the portion of the Bible for that day.
It helps me to read the verses out loud as I read, this reinforces my attention and learning.
I may read the verse one, two, three times or more to allow it to sink into my mind and heart.
I will go over the entire selected portion one or more times.
Often a sentence, phrase or word will stand out to me.
That is the part that I will go back to most often and most easily.
I know from hundreds of previous experiences that weeks later that part will not be as alive.
I will let that part speak to me in many ways and in many levels.
I will examine how it fits into that context.
I will seek for other juicy sentences, phrases and words.
The priority during the meditation process is not to memorize short or long passages.
Memorization is a totally different discipline.
Sometimes verses that have been meditated upon will easily become memorized.
Other times verses that have been mediated upon repeatedly for a long time are not memorized.
The colorful verses method of marking the Bible verses has helped me for nearly three decades.
This aids me to recognize my responsibility to do and not do in applying the Bible verse.
This magnifies who God is and what He does.
Before I brought my meditation practice to this place I had written key verses on index cards.
I marked them up with colored pens and a highlighter.
Also I had printed out pages in full color.
I carried these in my pocket for quick use when standing in line or at a red light.
Maybe these marking get in your way.
You can create your own unmarked version.
Maybe you would prefer to meditate using another translation.
Maybe you want to get a wider and deeper understanding of a verse or passage.
You can look up the same part of the scripture in several translations and ponder that.
I have used the World English Bible WEB because it is public domain.
If I used other versions in this web setting most copyright holders would not grant permission.
Or they would charge me royalties for each time a person downloaded it.
However for you own private use here are some useful links.
This includes NIV, NAS, KJV, NKJV, Message, Amplified, NLT and more.
You can look up any Bible verse and create your own meditation pages.
I marked the verses using the Underlining tool (beside the Bold and Italics button) in MS Word.
Also there is a Highlighter tool that is in the Formatting toolbar but sometimes hidden.
