Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we can better understand Him.

Peter directed [fastening – KJV] his gaze at him, as did John. – Acts 3:4.

The apostles “fastened” their eyes on the lame man. Is not this a characteristic of Christianity that it fastens its eyes on the afflicted and the suffering? Science fastens its eyes on inanimate matter! Art fastens its eyes on beauty! Art going to the temple to pray, which by the way it seldom does in our day, would have fixed its gaze on the “gate called Beautiful.” But Christianity fixed its eyes on the cripple. Art standing on the brow of Olivet would have fixed its gaze on the grandeur of Jerusalem, but Christ fixed His on its guilty inhabitants and wept over them. Science seeks out the secrets of the world. Art seeks out its beauties. Christianity seeks out its sorrows and ills, and strives to remove them.
~ BEECHER

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