When I was in my twenties and thirties I was busy memorizing most of the NT. Those years of meditation were mostly intellectually appealing to me. Around the time that I became engaged to be married I was memorizing the whole book of Proverbs. It was kind of like the NT experience. I learned a lot of the absolutes of the doctrines of the bible. But when I began to memorize the Psalms those intellectual meditations took on personalities. I began to really believe that the Bible was Gods spoken word. As God speaks we hear things that are gonna change us into something we believe we are so the former way we viewed ourselves is gone forever.

This was the application that I had been missing. I guess I can compare it to a time in our lives where we had a conversation with someone and it had such an effect upon us that the experience and the words were sort of etched in our souls and our memories of those times come rushing back as if we were reliving the experience all over again.

This is sort of the way the Psalms are written. They are written through the reactions to the events on this earth in the experience of Jesus. Within these deeply personal expressions are the reactions of God in the flesh. As we meditate on them they draw us into God speaking in a way that is beyond the words on the page. I can only explain this as God clearly speaking so the heart is enlarged as if the words swallow us up in eternity..which is like hearing the voice of God in a penetrating and mysterious way. The result of this is a distinct experience of serene quietness of heart that has driven a peace in the heart that cannot be explained. It is this experience that develops a peculiar disposition.