Janet Pope

This passage claims that through our knowledge of God

we can have grace and peace in abundance,

we can have everything we need for life and godliness, and

we can participate in the divine nature; we can become more like Jesus

I am going to pour myself into God’s Word until I get everything I need for life and godliness.

I am going to pour myself into God’s Word until I get everything I need for life and godliness

In other words, if you are not growing in your faith—adding to your faith—your knowledge becomes ineffective and unproductive. But if you are continually growing in your faith, your knowledge will have a positive effect. It will keep your knowledge productive and effective. The bottom line: Knowledge is meaningless without application.

The one who meditates on God’s Word day and night will have an increasing knowledge of God, and in knowing Him, he will have everything he needs for life and godliness. He will prosper in all that he does. Why? He prospers because, as he is watered and nourished by the Word, he begins to live out what he takes in and a fruitful life emerges. No wonder he is called “blessed.”

Know God’s Word.

Remember God’s Word.

Do not forget His commandments.

Have His Word ready on your lips.

Meditate on His law day and night.

Dwell on Christ’s words.

Store up His words.

The reference to binding words to the hands and forehead can be interpreted symbolically as all of your actions (your hands) and all of your thoughts (your forehead). God’s Word must be central in all that we are, all that we do, and all that we think about.

This new insight reveals to us that our biblical instruction goes beyond just thinking about God’s Word and extends to actually saying the words out loud.

A conventional teaching technique employed universally combines seeing, hearing, and speaking to augment the learning process. Meditation involves all three.

memorizing sequential verses you avoid wrong thinking, which leads to wrong application.