Psalms 119:11
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Years ago, I can remember going to our elementary school library. Book fair time was here! I loved book fair, even though I didn't love reading books. I can remember getting those small magazines to take home and look through so we could decide which book we wanted to order. But one thing I remember is that you didn't have to order just books. No they had posters! Posters of cars and football fields. I remember this one poster of Garfield standing there with a stack of books on his head and body. The caption read, "I'm learning by osmosis".
Funny what we can remember sometimes. You see I learned that day what the word osmosis meant. It was explained to me by my teacher. She said that osmosis is Garfield's way of getting the knowledge he needed. She said instead of reading his books, like he should, that he was trying to absorb the information he needed. She then told me that this process will never work. She told me the only way we can learn is to read the information inside of the books.
Now I know that my teacher was right. I know that we can't strap our Bibles to our heads and it just slowly sink in. But we can absorb the information that the Word of God gives us. See to me, in a crazy way, Garfield was right also. In order to walk with Jesus we must absorb His Word. We must take what we have received through the gates of our eyes and place it on and in ourselves. Sometimes we read books but never absorb what they are telling us. Although Garfield was being lazy as usual, there is a great lesson in absorbing God's Word into our hearts.
What about you today? Are you observing God's Word or ABSORBING it? I believe absorbing would mean that you are applying it. Kinda like strapping it on your head, but really strapping it to your heart so that you can withstand the wiles of the devil.
Ephesians 6:11
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
