Devotional Spirituality: part 3

Devotional Spirituality: The Contemplative Way

Contemplation and Meditation is not the beginning point for the new believer it takes some time, but well worth it.

In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Hebrews 5:12

Contemplation and Meditation must ALWAYS be tethered to God’s Word and  is not limited to certain personalities, temperaments and abilities.

Contemplation and Meditation is holy simplicity and involves: broken heartedness, worship attention to fix our gaze on Jesus

"Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." Psalm 46:10

This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: "In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it. Isaiah 30:15

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. Revelation 22:1-2

I lift up my eyes to you, to you whose throne is in heaven. As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid look to the and of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till he shows us his mercy. Psalm 123:1-2

On November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal was reading the 17th Chapter of John when he had a life-changing encounter with God. He wrote the following:

From about half past ten at night to about half an hour after midnight,
FIRE! "God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob," not of philosophers and scholars Certitude, heartfelt joy, peace. God of Jesus Christ. God of Jesus Christ. The world forgotten, everything except God. "O righteous Father, the world has not known You, but I have known You" (John 17:25). Joy, joy, joy, tears of joy.” After Pascal died, it was discovered that this was sewn into his clothing.