There are a couple further thoughts I have, and although they may seem unrelated to these particular passages at first, they do eventually tie in. First, I have been learning in my Psych. course about how the memory works. It is the specialty of the Psychologist who teaches this course, so he gets pretty pumped about it. One of the things we have discussed quite a bit and even employed in our class time is the power of mental imagery in learning and retaining information. It was very impacting for me, because I got to thinking about how God knows (best of all) how our minds work--he designed them, of course! And he wrote his words accordingly. Though some who are completely new to the Bible might think it is an old, dense book, they have yet to discover that it is full of "imagination." I got to thinking about all of the beautiful imagery and word pictures God has used to teach us the things he wants to impress upon our hearts. There are SO many.
But even more than that. The things he has included in his word--all of the beautiful imagery to meditate on and then recognize in nature and be reminded of when we see it--it was all created by him. We think we are so clever to come up with these technological and scientific advances, but they are only modeled after (many times) and governed by the rules the Creator has designed.
I guess I am just blown away when I think about all of this. The complexity and beauty of our God! And how he knows us and loves us. He reaches out to us in his Word in such beautiful ways--knowing how we work, because he designed us. How creative of him.
These word pictures are nifty things to carry around (coming back to the rudder and the bit). When we relate to what we know, we often grasp things better. And this gets me to thinking about sharing God's Word with others. Have you read Prepared to Answer by Paustian? He talks about using Bible stories in a casual way to share the gospel. The world is all gunked up on, "The more you know the better." But as Christians, we should be geeked up on, "The more I know about God and his Word the better," for so many reasons. But the one I'm excited about right now is this: the more we know of his Word and his stories, the better we can share a special, certain one with a particular person, giving them something they can relate to. Of course, it is not our words, but His Word that penetrates their hearts, but if you're following my running thoughts, I guess what I'm getting at is that it is so good to know his Word. It teaches us stories and pictures to share and to paraphrase in our own words, to individuals who need to hear them.
Thank you God for your creativity in your Word and world. Help me to be like you--please let my tongue be creative in speaking your truths with love.
If you have a/some favorite verse(s) that is an analogy to God's creation or a story that has captured your heart in a special way--a parallel to your life right now for some reason? could you share it with me?? I'd love to hear them. God's Word is so rich that we can't possibly remember or be thinking on all of it at once. Sometimes I forget about the treasures there and am excited all over again to hear ones I've not remembered for awhile.
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