When we listen to our car radios, watch television programs, read books, or just sit and wonder, our hearts (and minds) are in meditation mode, for good or bad.
If ESPN Radio is on in my car, I am absorbed in the storylines, commentaries, and sports analyses of the day. When we watch movies, we are fully immersed in romance, horror, or the funny and absurd. If we allow our minds to wonder down memory lane, we drink in again the positive or negative episodes from our past.
In short, we have a great deal of control over the meditations of our hearts.
I enjoy sports radio or a weekly whodunnit on TV like Castle. I enjoy a good historical non-fiction book; I am currently in the thick of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. I enjoy entertaining a memory from time-to-time. The challenge is making sure these meditations of our hearts are acceptable in God's sight, that we are feeding ourselves a spiritually nutritious diet of words, images, and sounds.
Despite my recent criticism of contemporary Christian music, I have returned to it on my car radio. Whatever criticisms I may have of Christian radio, it is because I think it is an awesome thing that has so much potential. It can ground of our hearts and minds daily in meditations on Christ.
The more I hear the songs of the faithful, the more I hear others lifting their voices in praise, the more I hear songwriters and musicians praising God, the more my heart meditates upon God.
Christian radio cannot fill me completely with the spiritual diet that my life needs, but it is becoming more of a main course in my life.
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