Section 9
the Son of God, Christ, living in them. Thus, whatever the apostles speak with Christ is the word of Christ. For this reason, we should re gard all the words written by Paul, in fact the whole New Testament, as the word of Christ. I hope that one day we shall be able to set the en tire New Testament to music as a help in sing ing the word of Christ. Then we shall have a tune for every verse in the New Testament.
My concern is not with formal singing; it is with the spontaneous singing of the Word, a singing which causes our whole being to be exer cised. As we sing the Word, we need to exercise our eyes to read, our mind to understand, our emotion to love the Word, our will to receive the Word, and also our spirit to pray, sing, praise, psalm, and thank the Lord for His Word.
SATURATED WITH THE WORD
THROUGH THE SPIRIT
In the past, many of us did not exercise our whole being when we came to the Word. Often we used only our mind to study the Bible. We did not even exercise our emotion adequately to love the Word, or exercise our will strongly to receive the Word. But if we exercise our whole being to take in the Word, eventually we shall