focusing our mind on a spiritual issue. While this definition is correct, it is not very helpful (practically speaking). In the generations leading up to Edwards it was assumed that meditation was “a steadfast bending of the mind to some spiritual matter, discoursing of it with our selves, till we bring the same to some profitable issue.”[2] Inherent to meditation is wrestling with the truth your mind is attending to. It is coming to grips with our sinful and rebellious heart as it recollects God’s