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On our journey to spiritual enlightenment we will either spend time trying to live up to a spiritual ideal or we will allow the spiritual ideal, “Christ in you” to live in, through, and as us; being all that He is in all that we are.
The reason that we contemplate scripture or any other spiritual truth is to slow down the continuous flow of thoughts to the point where we can just be still and sense the Presence of God. We should always be moving from the letter of truth to the Spirit of truth, and contemplation of scripture is one way of doing that; “ the letter kills but the Spirit gives life.” That means the surface meaning of scripture can to kill our understanding if the spirit or intent of the passage isn’t sought. The more familiar we can be with the Author, the more in line we will be with the intent. To experience God as love, grace and truth will determine our understanding of the intent or spirit of the written passage.
TRUTH IS. The nature of truth is to be constantly expressing Itself. We become consciously aware of truth in proportion to our receptivity to it. We never have to live on the truth that was revealed to us yesterday, because there is always fresh revelations awaiting for us each day. Just as the Israelites in the desert never had to live on “yesterday’s manna” neither do we have to live on yesterday’s revelations. They are new every morning.
The reason we contemplate scriptures (the written word) is because it one of many ways to prepare our conscious mind to receive the Living word revealed from within. It is not just the written word we need, it is fresh relevant spiritual revelations about the written word that makes it come alive in our every day living.
No human being can make truth come alive to you. That is the work and function of the Spirit within you. Men and women can be channels through which truth flows, but only the Spirit within you can take the written or verbal presentation of truth and make it come alive to you personally.
The reason we seek and contemplate truth is to clear our conscious and subconscious mind of the religious error we’ve accumulated through the years, by blindly and un-thinkingly accepting whatever was dished out to us by a “professional peddler” of religion. Contemplating spiritual truths and allowing the Spirit to teach us tears down the error and rebuilds our lives with truth.
The goal is to move from the “letter of truth” to the “spirit of truth.” The words written in black ink on a white page in the Bible are an external visible representation of the inner invisible truth written by the Spirit within the heart of each of us.