Meditation can neither be done randomly nor in a hurry. The following 10 Bible verses can be a guidance on importance and Biblical models -- such as Psalmist, Job and Jeremiah -- on appropriate attitude to Word.
#1 Ps119:104-105
I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path. Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.
#2 Ps18:30
As for God, his way is perfect: The Lord’s word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him.
#3 2 Timothy 3:15
And how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
#4 Amos 8:11
“The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “when I will send a famine through the land— not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.
#5 Jeremiah 15:16
When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart’s delight, for I bear your name, Lord God Almighty.
#6 Job 23:12
I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.
#7 Matt 4:4
Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
#8 Heb 5:12
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!
#9 Eph 4:13
until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
#10 2 Cor 4:16
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
