Proverbs 16:20 English Standard Version (ESV) Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good, and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.

Jesus said there are none good but God. But He is God if we believe His Word.

We read the bible, we do bible studies, we attend Sunday school and listen to our pastors sharing the gospel. What does it mean to give thought to the Word beyond all that?

Perhaps meditating on His Word is different from any of those activities.

Vine’s dictionary has a primary definition of meditate as “to care for” and a secondary meaning of “to attend to”.

I liken those definitions to gardening, as in Adam’s first job was to attend to the garden, which meant to grow healthy foods and to pull weeds.

Our minds have to cultivate a garden of knowledge of His Word. What abides in our hearts is pure but our access is first found in our memory.

Philippians 4:8 English Standard Version (ESV) Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Think about it.

Do we understand it? Do we believe it? Do we trust it? Do we use it?

Have we discovered Christ in His Word?

Yesterday I expressed my discipleship method as showing my disciple how to be a Christian.

2 Corinthians 3:2-4 English Standard Version

2 You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. 3 And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. 4 Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God.

The first step in discipleship must be an interview with the disciple to get their salvation story. They need to be able to express how they came to Christ. We must listen in the spirit to discover if that person is saved or still outside the community of believers.

We cannot disciple the lost. They must be evangelized. Those are two different approaches.

We are like the Corinthians Paul is speaking about. We are letters of recommendations. Those letters are written on our hearts and if our disciples that are saved are given the opportunity to read them, we must open up our hearts to them to be read.

Whatever “program” is being used to disciple individuals we must remember that a goal of discipleship is to show Christ by allowing them to read our letters of recommendation written on our hearts. The “program” being used is nothing more than a way to see if the disciple is reading the Word in the spirit or in the flesh.

Homework results will reveal to us in the spirit if they are “getting it”. Discipleship is a long term program that has one purpose, to allow the disciple to let the Holy Spirit lead them and take over our role of revealing Christ.

The ultimate goal of discipleship is for the disciple to discover Christ in themselves and to allow the Holy Spirit to lead them in truth. That is the confidence we have through Christ in God.