This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body, refocus your mind, and to re-imagine and re-narrate your life to a truer reality. I’m Dave Cover. I want to help you with Christian meditation where you can break through all the distractions and experience God’s presence through biblically guided imagination. 

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Often anxiety and tension rise in our life when our focus gets fragmented and our priorities get conflicted and we feel like our lives are getting chaotic and important things are being threatened in some way.

In our last couple of episodes we looked at what Moses tells the people of Israel. And I think it’s a great passage to meditate on because I think it helps us defragment our priorities and helps us put our focus in the right place.

Deuteronomy 30:19-20 (NIV) 

“Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life….”

These verbs in this verse — love, listen, hold fast — describe Jesus’s relationship with God as his father. And the reason they describe Jesus’s relationship with God as his father is because he was confident in the father’s love for him. That was the foundation of his entire life.

The idea of loving God and listening to his voice seems undesirable if our view of God is that he is distant and hard to please and easy to disappoint.

When Moses uses the phrase, the LORD your God, that’s the language of intimate relationship that God has for his covenant people. He has committed himself to forever be your God. In fact God‘s name, Yahweh, was a name he only gave to his covenant people.

If you don’t see the biblical view of God – his love for you and his taking the initiative to have a relationship with you — your image of God is going to be sterile and unattractive.

But Jesus says in…

John 15:9-11 (NIV)

“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.”

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