Sorta housekeeping

I am taking this interlude from my ideas of what David desired to achieve from penning Psalm 15 to hopefully open for you the same new excitement I have for doing this blog. My desire is that we might gain the same understanding that created the Psalm and why it has been preserved over all these years so we see this Psalm in a new way and will prompt our lives to bring glory to our Lord.

I am also seeing a greater value and power in hiding the Word in your heart. It has come through the reading of a book about music, The Music Lesson by Victor L. Wooten. I do not know the author but have been told he is one of the best bass players out there. What I am finding is a completely new look at how to approach learning to play music. I am half way through the book and see other applications of this approach.

So why am I telling you this in the middle of a blog on Psalm 15? It gives us a new look at learning how to live the Psalm. What Wooten says is when most people first approach music all they see is the notes. They whiz right past the groove, tone and purpose and fail to see the whole which includes many other facets that make the music beautiful.

This is much like my coming to Psalm 15. At first glance all I see are the words and not the rest of the picture, like how the words are connected what is their purpose and how would they sound aloud. Now the notes or words are important but without having looked at the whole I miss the beauty and often see only what I think I already know.

In the memorization of Scripture I have always kept the whole piece in view from the beginning. I do not just start memorizing words because when you get through all you have is a series of words without knowing what they were intended to be as a whole. By seeing the whole at the beginning I get the tenor and the tone of the piece before I ever start the memory work. So, when I am finished I know how it is to sound as a whole and thereby capture the beauty and much of the truth of the work. Then because I primarily do the Scriptures as drama I have a good feel for the way it ought to sound when spoken. The whole is not just a bunch of single words one after another but a beautiful picture.