I think there is meditation which God wants, but what this is will develop as you mature. At first, you might meditate simply by thinking about things in the Bible, and getting ideas about God. Then, as you read more and more about how to love, in the Bible, you might get into meditating about "what would Jesus do?" so you learn more how to love. And I think that with more maturing we are more busy not only with our thinking, but with being with God and submitting to Him, all the time, so we do everything in love (1 Corinthians 16:14) with
"rest for your souls." (in Matthew 11:28-30). So, even while we do things, we might stay in meditation in order to keep in communion with God and not let anyone or anything distract us.
So, I suppose you could say there is "walking meditation" > how in us, right while we do things, we make sure we do not give in to hurry and worry and fear and anxiety and ill temper and impatience and boredom and loneliness, but we keep with how we are in love and joy and peace, and flowing with how our Father guides us
"continually" (Isaiah 58:11). But during prayer we can meditate like this so we are clear of the negative and wrong emotions and feelings, so that in prayer we are submitting to God in His peace and joy and rest. But this way of being with God in prayer is our standard for how we can stay prayerful while doing other things. So we need to keep this deeper-than-words meditation going while we are walking
So, meditation is not only about thinking in words, but meditation has to do with which things we allow and seek.
Philippians 2:13 says,
"for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure." (Philippians 2:13)
To me, this means God is the One who in us works us to meditate how He desires. So, meditation is not our own self-controlling and self-refining thing. This can be a big difference between Christian meditation and other meditation. Non-Christian meditation may have a person depending on oneself to bring oneself into meditation. But in Christianity we depend on God, and we are so deeply personal with Him in us while He is working in us
"both to will and to do for His good pleasure."
This is so very personal and intimate, to have You, O God our Father, working right in our wills to have us doing all that You Yourself desire so better than what we can wish and try to get ourselves to do. Whatever He really wants, He Himself will work in our wills to have us do it. And this makes us alive in His love, not puppets!!!!
So, it is so important, then, in meditation to refuse love-dead things like worry and hurry and unforgiveness and lusts for pleasures and bitterness and frustration. When these things start, we need to stop while God corrects us and restores us into sweet and sensitive sharing and submission with Him in His peace. When we do fail, this is what meditation can mean . . . how we stop what is wrong and be attentive to God to see how He corrects us and then has us doing what He wants.
So, our meditation is about flowing with God in His action, and not only words
Have you sailed a boat? You might know many words about sailing; but you can't know how to sail, only by what you know or how you meditate about what you have been told. In your little sailboat you need to be sensitive, always fine-tuning how you flow your boat along. You learn to pull or hold or release the sail line the right way, how to adjust your weight and position as you go with the waves and wind, and how to move your rudder stick. Sailing is a meditation, then, in which you need to move faster than you can think; it can be like this while sharing with and submitting to God.
In your little sailboat,
if you steer your little sailboat
straight against the wind,
it will blow you dead in the water,
and then the waves will
flip you up and down and all around;
and this is why your rigging is getting
all r - a - t - t - l - e - d.
But if we flow with the
sweet and gentle breeze,
this will ease us to safe harbor
plus the waves of this life's problems
will help to push us there
