{"id":6971,"date":"2024-01-25T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6971"},"modified":"2024-01-23T10:19:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T17:19:25","slug":"meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6971","title":{"rendered":"Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When we first started putting Bibles on our phones, I had several apps with different translations. Finally, I consolidated all my translations in one app: Olive Tree<\/a>. My go-to translation for study is the ESV Strong version which couples the ESV with Strong’s Concordance<\/a> – a built-in Hebrew and Greek dictionary. Olive Tree is all I use on my phone and iPad. (FYI, for those who are interested.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few weeks ago, I was ecstatic when Olive Tree offered The Living Bible<\/a> for only $9.99! Do you remember The Living Bible? It started as Living Letters, Ken Taylor’s paraphrase of New Testament epistles, first published in 1962. I remember well when it came out. Then Living Prophecies – “So that’s what Isaiah was trying to say!” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Living Bible’s rendition of Psalm 1.2 remains my favorite definition of meditation: I use it often when I teach. Here it is in the ESV:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do I like The Living Bible’s version? See for yourself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They delight in doing everything God wants them to, and day and night are always meditating on his laws and thinking about ways to follow him more closely.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is meditation? “Thinking about ways to follow him more closely.” That will preach, and you can do that no matter what translation or paraphrase you use. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we first started putting Bibles on our phones, I had several apps with different translations. Finally, I consolidated all my translations in one app: Olive Tree. My go-to translation for study is the ESV Strong version which couples the ESV with Strong’s Concordance – a built-in Hebrew and Greek dictionary. Olive Tree is all … Continue reading Meditation<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1Or","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6973,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971\/revisions\/6973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}