Many are frightened because meditation has become something of a buzzword in New Age circles. But the differences between biblically based meditation and what we find in Eastern religions and the New Age movement are profound. Here are a few of them: 1. Unlike Eastern meditation, which advocates emptying the mind, Christian meditation call for is to fill our mind with God and His truth. 2. Unlike Eastern meditation, which advocates mental passivity, Christian meditation call on us to actively exert our mental energy. 3. Unlike Eastern meditation, which advocates detachment from the world, Christian meditation call for attachment to God. 4. Unlike Eastern meditation, which advocates visualization in order to create one’s own reality, Christian meditation call for visualization of the reality already created by God. 5. Unlike Eastern meditation, which advocates metaphysical union with “god,” Christian meditation calls for spiritual communion with God. 6. Unlike Eastern meditation, which advocates an inner journey to find the center of one’s being, Christian meditation calls for an outward focus on the objective revelation of God in Scripture and creation. 7. Unlike Eastern meditation, which advocates mystical transport as the goal of one’s efforts, Christian meditation calls for moral transformation as the goal of one’s efforts.
Sam Storms

CALL of GOD

CALL of GOD

CALL of GOD, The

  1. By Christ # Isa 55:5 Ro 1:6
  2. By his Spirit # Re 22:17
  3. By his works # Ps 19:2,3 Ro 1:20
  4. By his ministers # Jer 35:15 2Co 5:20
  5. By his gospel # 2Th 2:14
  6. Is from darkness # 1Pe 2:9
  7. Addressed to all # Isa 45:22 Mt 20:16
  8. Most reject # Pr 1:24 Mt 20:16
  9. Effectual to saints # Ps 110:3 Ac 2:47 13:48 1Co 1:24
  10. TO MAN IS 10a) Of grace

    # Ga 1:15 2Ti 1:9

10b) According to the purpose of God # Ro 8:28 9:11,23,24 10c) High # Php 3:14 10d) Holy # 1Ti 1:9 10e) Heavenly # Heb 3:1 10f) To fellowship with Christ # 1Co 1:9 10g) To holiness # 1Th 4:7 10h) To liberty # Ga 5:13 10i) To peace # 1Co 7:15 Col 3:15 10j) To glory and virtue # 2Pe 1:3 10k) To the eternal glory of Christ # 2Th 2:14 1Pe 5:10 10l) To eternal life # 1Ti 6:12 11) Partakers of, justified # Ro 8:30 12) Walk worthy of # Eph 4:1 13) Blessedness of receiving # Re 19:9 14) Praise God for # 1Pe 2:9 15) Illustrated # Pr 9:3,4 Mt 23:3-9 16) REJECTION OF, LEADS TO 16a) Judicial blindness # Isa 6:9 Ac 28:24-27 Ro 11:8-10 16b) Delusion # Isa 66:4 2Th 2:10,11 17) Withdrawal of the means of grace # Jer 26:4-6 Ac 13:46 18:6 Re 2:5 18) Temporal judgments # Isa 28:12 Jer 6:16,19 35:17 Zec 7:12-14 19) Rejection by God # Pr 1:14-32 Jer 6:19,30 20) Condemnation # Joh 12:48 Heb 2:1-3 12:25 21) Destruction # Pr 29:1 Mt 22:3-7