What is Meditation?
Meditation is not the transcendental, existentialistic endeavors that most people think about when they hear the word. Meditating on the Word of God is completely different than that which most people associate with meditation. In Joshua 1:8 is says
“This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” Here we see that meditation is something we ought to do around the clock, besides the time we sleep of course. The Hebrew word for meditate is “hagah” which means “to utter, to devise, to muse,” and “to mutter.” The key here is that certain Bible verses are to be uttered over and over again and that we should muse over them. The word muse is especially important in the Hebrew meaning of meditation because it means “to consider something thoughtfully and thoroughly.” That is exactly what meditation should be; to utter it in our minds, over and over again and to consider it thoughtfully and thoroughly.
In Psalm 119:15 it says “I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways.” That fits nicely with the concept of meditation…to fix your eyes upon so we can say that meditation is contemplating, fixing our eyes (and necessarily our attention) on, considering it very carefully, thoughtfully, and thoroughly, and uttering it in the mind over and over again. Meditating on the Word of God seems to be a lost art today from many Christians that I talk to yet it is one of the most beneficial ways in which we can hide His Word in our hearts. To meditate on a Bible verse or verses is to read it (fix your eyes upon it), consider it thoughtfully, ponder it, think about it, and reflect upon it.

Gbam!