The Blueberry Patch

Last night in our Sunday night class, we learned about how just having knowledge about God's Word is like having a meal before you, only to have it behind glass. If we do not consume the Word and allow it to be the nutrients that change us, we have nothing. Just because we have memorized several Scripture and are ready to deal them out to those around us, if we have not let the same Scripture permeate us, we are not really fed, not really apart of that Scripture.
With this in mind as well as the Created to be his Helpmeet study, I thought about even one piece of Scripture, one verse. One verse can be as a blueberry patch.
As we drive to the patch, we have a particular experience, place, or challenge that will define our experience here. Soon we have zeroed in on the section of the blueberry patch that appeals to us today. Now we have gotten out of the car, and we can see the rows of bushes all with fruit pleasing to the eye. We have a general idea of the whole patch, yet will we pick a spot and start picking from there.
Now some people in the patch will wear gloves, they don't want to be stained by the process of picking blueberries, but they are here. Some will have their buckets and only take what they need. Still others will be like children, they will have stained fingers and faces, empty buckets but full tummies, from the delicious fruit.
We will all leave the same patch of blueberries and have different experiences. Just as we do with even a single Scripture in God's Word. Each numbered verse is like the whole patch of blueberries. We should be like the children and get messy, have the Word be so a part of us that it stains us and it's nutrients grow us. We should also realize that we are not able to know if the whole patch tastes the same. Someone else at the patch may have gotten smaller, sweeter berries. Yet another, large somewhat bitter berries.
Later, we will all visit the patch again, just as we do God's word. We may return to the familiar spot and see the Scripture in the same light, not changed by it this time. But I pray we will pick a different road to the patch, that we would see it from a different angle, that we would taste the fruit of a different bush. Because like a blueberry patch, one Scripture is full of sweet fruit, full of nutrients, and full of God.