Remember the golfer in the story? He wasn’t directly meditating on God, but he was thinking about something that was good. In addition to God and His attributes, we’re to think about whatever is good. We’re not saying that we should pretend that nothing bad ever happens to us. We need to keep in touch with reality. But like the golfer, we need to choose a positive perspective that allows us to walk in joy rather than bitterness and defeat. Sometimes that is hard. When we’re weak, we are spiritually
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