Art and music are wonderful ways to spend time meditating on God’s Word. The act of creating allows us to process information in a very holistic way. It involves thinking, creating, and the hands-on feel of doing the art.
Artists enjoy the tactile aspects of creating because it involves the senses—seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and sometimes tasting.
Current research indicates that the more senses you use, the more information you are likely to retain. This is another example of how right-brain activities can help us absorb the left-brain information.
Musicians may enjoy expressing biblical truth in song. Writing music conveys the thrust of a passage or story (even without words).
Art takes many forms. Even if you don’t consider yourself an artist, you might still find ways to “create” as a way of processing what you learn in the Bible.
What’s your thing? Do you enjoy scrapbooking? Then create a scrapbook or art journal with each page visually expressing a truth from God’s Word. Make a scrapbook that tells a story or biography from the Bible or that crates a visual re-telling of a book of the Bible.
Be creative. Engage. Enjoy.
This is an excerpt from Sweeter Than Chocolate: Developing a Healthy Addiction to God’s Word. Used by permission.
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