“This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” Joshua 1:8
This ‘Book of the Law’ is the Lord. I have a small but growing sense of this. The Lord is the Word. The Word is alive, as opposed to my mechanical and reactive ego, which is dead. And by ‘dead’ I mean lacking the Lord’s life (charity and truth), which is obvious when I witness that it is only interested in itself and its own benefit. The Lord is all goodness and all truth. This is why it makes sense that I would need to meditate in it, because I, of myself, am not the Lord’s goodness and truth. Without the Lord’s presence as the Word in my mind I would not be capable of observing what is out of alignment in my life. When blessed with his presence I can ‘observe to do all that is written in it.’ I trust that walking this way will be prosperous, as it says in Joshua, because the alternative is so dire.