Assimilate God’s Word …
assimilate vb. to learn and understand thoroughly, absorb, incorporate, and be changed into another.
The Borg assimilated Starfleet Captain Jean-Luc Picard in late 2366. His assimilation allowed the Borg to acquire all of his knowledge and experience. I’m not a Star Trek fan like my wife, but I’m big on assimilation. Not what the Borg do. I’m into assimilating God’s Word.
Let the Bible shape your DNA.
Is God’s Word part of you? Are you consumed with longing for it? Is it embedded in your soul – undividable from who you are? We set our hearts on many things. Have you set your heart on being a man/woman of the Word?
To make God’s Word a part of who you are, you must read and reflect on it. There are no shortcuts. Reading and reflection require discipline – a regular routine of listening to, meditating on, and memorizing the Scriptures. God’s Word must be absorbed into your DNA. On a daily basis, God’s Word must enter through your eyes or ears before it can be fixed in your mind.
Engraved on your heart.
Reading and reflection are the preliminary stages of assimilation. To go deeper, you must be shaped and changed in the depths of your being. Your mental knowledge of the Scriptures must be actualized. A metamorphosis has to take place. Information must transmute. What you know, you must become.
Becoming . . . God’s Word must lodge inside us and burst out through us! It should whisper in our spirit and trumpet through everything we say and do. It should be in our hearts but also our hands. In our minds, but also our lips. In the privacy of our homes, as well as the public square. And, like the Borg Collective, it should continue multiplying through further assimilation!
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Summary
To assimilate God’s Word means more than just learning it; it’s about absorbing and incorporating it into the very fabric of your being. Just as the Borg assimilated Captain Picard, God’s Word should shape your thoughts, actions, and identity, becoming deeply embedded in your soul. This transformation requires daily discipline—reading, meditating on, and memorizing Scripture until it becomes a part of you, influencing everything you say and do. As you continue to reflect and grow, God’s Word should flow through your life, touching others and multiplying like the Borg Collective, but for the kingdom of God.
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