Ive memorized most of the NT, Psalms and Proverbs. I started to memorize about 36 years ago. I memorized two to three verses a day. It has been a slow transformation from a purely physical and practical view of life to a meta physical creation of the image of Christ through the pronouncement of covenants, laws, decrees , statutes and promises. Every day I experience the blessed unity of the fruit of the Spirit in the sense that the individual descriptions of the fruit are all united in the experience of the perfect image. In this sense there is a blessed interaction on a personal level with a Person who is present in this Spirit. This has been a slow transformation from the word to the reality.
We understand ourselves and the world according to our own view. God has gifted us with His word that has been the cause of all things that exist. This communication of God has been outlined for us so that we can have fellowship with God and with one another according to learned knowledge that has been practiced so that we can gain a greater understanding of ourselves and our world. This outline is the communication that explains the order of creation and relationships. We find this creation of the perfect image in the form of petitions, pronouncements, curses , laws and cries in the Psalms. The bible is a book that is inspired by God so that every word is God breathed. The bible is not a book in which the individual doctrines and principles are disconnected from the other words that explain another principle. But the bible is a book where one word contains the spirit of all the words. We do not seek to divide the bible into morals or principles but we speak the outline so that we create an epistemology in which we change through deliverance. We are actually relearning a completely different vocabulary.
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Unless we learn this vocabulary we will never speak correctly. The bible says that those who do not apply themselves to the words are like babies who are still on milk. In the Psalms the baby is one who is too weak to carry the weight of this perfect image. God has created all things by the word of His mouth. Not only has He created these things but He has ordered all things by His spoken word. If the word was not essential to the success of the christian life then we could be transformed by the any idea that we have of Christ. But the epistemology of change comes from God gifting us with His covenants , laws, decrees..etc. as the agent for our experiencing His creation and recreation. So when we meditate on the Psalms day and night we are actively redefining ourselves and the world that we live in. If all the christian world participate in pronouncing and petitioning God through this perfect outline then we would see Christ kingdom flourish throughout the world. Not just in the christian context but in the governmental.
Our natural level of thinking is weak and ineffective. Our fall back position is to be overcome by all kinds of evil dispositions. To think with the vocabulary that we get from education, parental instruction and occupational learning is to be disingenuous in some way. The only personal communication that erases the corruption that comes through corrupted agents is the word of God. Each one of us are only genuine when we are miss understood in this corrupted system. This is why the Bible only gives one solution to personal salvation. Every person who opposes Gods salvation must be judged and cursed. The avenue of change is through experiencing one deliverance to another. When we pray the Psalms we pray as if there is not other person on the earth. The philosophy of deliverance is that we must be freed in order to be of help to others. I mean freed in the sense that we speak the blessings that rise to the level of real glory and the curses which descend to the level of real spiritual death. Most men are entertaining a fantasy. Any other way to experience freedom is really taking a sugar pill. But to take the real medicine we must know what the experience of mystery is.
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