I click on the video and it makes me smile. Big. These two sisters whose words have changed lives, laughing as they stumble through this Word that gives Life. And I am reminded. It's the joy in their words and faces, the way they can't stop themselves from injecting "Wow!" and "I love this!" and "This is my favorite part!" between every single verse. The way she punctuates the phrases with her hands and closes her eyes as if savoring each syllable.
She says it in a way this musician can understand: "Your life can't sing unless you play... and you can't really play unless you know how to play through the hard parts... but if you want to make music through the hard parts - play the left hand alone... because when you can really write out the left hand from memory, you can really play!"
These Words I am learning to write out by heart are Life. They are a Lifeline. They are rich and sweet, like honey on the lips. It is the Word of God, and I need it desperately. I am reminded of how much I long for the Truth of God to abide in me. I long for it to change and transform me. And it's not just memorization for religion's sake. It's not memorization because it's right or expected. It's like inhaling, learning a new language, a heart language.
And it's this: What the heart knows by heart is what the heart knows, and I want my heart to know God is perfect and worthy of all my trust and thanks in all things. I want my heart to know this jar of clay holds a treasure, that God loves ALWAYS, that He is my source of peace and joy and... all. And so I memorize and learn His words by heart so I might know. So I might LIVE.
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