The sweetness of Gods word.

Some of you know that about 35 years ago I attended a Bill Gothard seminar.  I have always been an impressionable person. I could sit for hours looking at pictures and getting energy from the different people as I remembered them at the place I knew them and their personality. This is why Bill had such an impression upon me. It was the first person that I saw in my life that had this presence about him. If anyone is not familiar with Bill , he was a little bit different than most teachers that I had grown up around . Bill actually memorized the NT and I think some of the Poetry in the OT.

After this seminar that I attended I decided to start to memorize. I think my first chapt was Romans 5. I would go over two verse a day in the morning on the way to work.Then after work I would go over the verses again on the way home. Well after I had success with chapt 5.6.7 I was hooked. As I began to memorize the Epistles the boring discipline part was consumed by this sweetness that I felt. So eventually I did not mind the initial attempt to do something over and over again because I this sweetness came upon me when I got past the boring repetition. Some times I would be saying the words without concentrating but I began to realize that the flow of scripture had the same sweetness that would come upon me.

This sweetness began to grow so that God told me one day that He was gonna give me jobs where I had a lot of time on the road. So the more I traveled on the road the more time I spent in memorization and meditation. The more I meditated the less I cared about things that other people normally occupy their time thinking about. This grew into kind of a separate life for me in which I experienced supernatural freedom. But at the same time I believe that God was plotting my life out with the purpose of drawing me into His love by bringing people into my life that were like minded with me. Not that they applied themselves the same way that I had but that their view of life was almost identical with mine. After 35 years of meditation God begins to impress on my mind exactly what He was doing with me and my family as I look back at my life. This sweetness is both an inward experience and a special fellowship that came into my life through God ordering my community.