Meditation by Octavius Winslow. My heart grew hot within me, and as I meditated, the fire burned. Psalm 39 verse 3. That is, while I was retracing all the way the Lord had led me, while I was meditating upon the fullness and preciousness of His Word, and while I was musing upon the great love with which He had loved me, the fire in my soul was enkindled.

There are few more powerful aids to growth in grace, to progress in sanctification of heart and humbleness of mind, than devout meditation. Isaac went out to meditate in the field at evening. I meditate on you in the night watches.

Cultivate, my reader, this holy and useful habit. In a world of incessant action and in an age of restless excitement, we have great need to imitate these holy examples and to retire to the calm retreat, the silent shade, and there abandon ourselves to devout meditation upon divine, heavenly, and eternal things.

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