Learning Social Media Marketing and Success through Meditation.

I am learning to do Social Media Marketing for a business owned by a friend of mine.  It's really quite a blast as I put content and photos up on the page.  It's getting the message out, and learning about how to really connect with customers and friends of the business. 
I am doing at least one Facebook posting a day and go out every week to get more photos.  I have been appreciating the difficulty business owners have in getting their customer's attention in the endless flood of ads, blogs, sites, and posts out there.

It seems to me that there is another One who has to fight for my attention.  My face time with God gets crunched by all the blogs and news and emails that I want to read.  I have to struggle to mentally climb out of the Facebook newsreel and into something more lasting and nourishing than grumpy kitty photos. 
I am working on memorizing a verse a week and the one for this week (and last week I'm afraid) really cuts to the heart of my mental focus.  Here it goes, from memory:
Joshua 1:8
"This book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night that thou mayest observe to do all that is written therein, for then shall thou make thy way very prosperous, and then thou shall have good success. " KJV

Ok, so I had to look a few times.  But here is that verse in another version:

"Do not let this book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

So what does that mean?  Looking in the Hebrew in my Lexicon, I found out that meditate means to mumble, or to imagine.  I think of my girls when they are playing a "game" of imagination with their vast assortment of Polly Pockets.  They are continually creating the drama and characters by speaking out what is going on.  They create with words the story they want to enjoy, using the dolls as props.

In our reality, we need to use God's Word to create a new reality for ourselves.  We need to not just read God's Word, but imagine how our lives will change as a result of the insights we gain from our reading.  When we read God's word, we need to see our lives and our selves in a new light, and then act accordingly with what is revealed to us.  Meditation on scripture allows us to mentally "try on" a new way of life in the process of becoming a better representation of Christ.

Daily Bible reading and study is great but it is not an end in itself.  The goal is to have a permanent change in thinking that causes us to be more like God and to enjoy Him more.   It takes more than "scrolling through" the Bible, we have to muddle it out in our minds.