I don’t think I am blessed more in the study of the Bible than when I meditate and memorize as I study. My several month study in Psalm 119 was done this way. I have no words that I can use to aptly and succinctly explain how the meditation and memorization of it helped my heart, but of course I will try.
As I meditated on Psalm 119, I could almost feel my brain growing...increasing in power and in wisdom just by repeating its verses and allowing the Spirit of God to use it to enlighten my mind and my heart. It was as if I had been sitting in a dark room trying to see to read and someone came in and flipped on the light switch and at that moment everything became clear and I could see! Grace illuminated truth entered my heart and ignited the synapses in my brain to fire and perform better. The Presence of God in my life became, at that moment, very real...similarly to how I felt at the moment of my salvation. The first verse of this precious psalm says this:
Blessed are the undefiled in the way,
Who walk in the law of the LORD!
One of the tangible blessings that I walked away with after studying this Psalm was that I was truly able to walk “undefiled” in the way. It put much truth to the lies that I had been unwittingly walking in and believing. Truth for error. Right doctrine...right walk.
I say with the Psalmist:
I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies,
As much as in all riches.
I will meditate on Your precepts,
And contemplate Your ways.
I will delight myself in Your statutes;
I will not forget Your word.—Ps 119:14-16
