The way I responded to meditation most of my life. What was I afraid of?
Empty your mind. I was taught that this was the essence of meditation.
Empty your mind was to invite the devil in. If I empty my mind a demon was lurking ready to pounce and take control.
Really?
I don’t see any biblical evidence for that.
This whole idea assumes that a Christian can “accidentally” be possessed by a demon. And it would be “accidental”. Meditating, even emptying your mind, is not actually violating any commandment. There is no biblical command saying to not empty your mind. Also it is not actually saying “Devil please take possession of me.”
So why was I taught this?
Not 100% sure. Most likely two things were at play. There was nervousness that meditation could lead us to base our faith on whatever we imagine instead of the bible. Secondly a nervousness that if we started to meditate, since our church had no resources to teach us, we would go to eastern religions for guidance, ending up mixing our beliefs with theirs.
For the record I do not think that the essence of biblical meditation is emptying your mind. I will talk about that in another post.
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