Editorial August 23, 1975 Issue

Meditation and Christian Practice

Naomi Price

"Keep your thought in line with God's law of good and put it into practice all day and all night and then you will feel the power of divine law working in your life." This, one might say, is essentially the method of effective prayer by which to overcome mortal limitations and frustrations—the method that the Psalmist recommended to his contemporaries centuries before the Christian era.

In his poetic way he sang: "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night."^{Ps. 1:1, 2;} And in several other psalms the concept of prayerful meditation on God's law and His wonderful works is praised as a help to establishing a good, peaceful, progressive life.

Years later, Christ Jesus gave his disciples specific instruction as to how to pray through communion with the universal Father, infinite Spirit. He taught them that the ideal prayer is not only periodically to acknowledge God's all-presence and all-power but to stay in that state of consciousness. And he demonstrated through his own triumphant life and healing works for others that this mode of communion with the divine creator is supremely effective in resolving human problems of every kind.

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