Ps 63 1 O God, you are my God,

earnestly I seek you;

my soul thirsts for you,

my body longs for you,

in a dry and weary land

where there is no water."

James teaches us that our mouths are a the bridle that control the direction of the horse. The Psalmist is saying that what comes out of our mouths controls our body. So meditation is not simply and exercise of the mind and the mouth. It is exhausting ourselves physically in worshiping God in order to control where we take our body. What is important to us is what the amount of physical exertion we put into the practice.

The life of meditation is building on the effects of speaking from day to day. In this Psalm he is experiencing the physical sensations of being in the desert. He is thirsty and weary of the environment. But we must understand that every experience of life is how we view it. We naturally live with the constraints of the physical sensations.For instance the Psalmist is experiencing thirst , hunger and the sunburn. Our natural desire is make our plans according to our physical needs and desires. So we experience pleasure by these needs being met. But the Psalmist is not satisfied with the limits of this kind of enjoyment. He believes that meditation can change the way that he views the desert.

So meditation is the art of breaking the limits of just being under the effects of the desert. Are we really confined to just enjoying the view and the beauty of the desert? Are the real dangers of our lives confined by thirst and sun? Is the experience of the desert that affects our feeling limited by the physical effects?

The truth is that the desert points to the creator. In meditation we must rise up above the desert. Because we stand in the presence of God even tho we are in the desert. We must understand that Gods creation was ordered by His laws , decrees etc. The gifts change our view and our experience of the physical universe. The point is that we view things not just according to our physical eyes but according to our spiritual senses. There is a relationship between the physical sense and the spiritual.

In meditation the application of the law , decrees, etc that we speak change the way that we feel about the world. Because the gifts speak in a way that describes the beauty and the balance of the physical and spiritual experience. We do not experience the total beauty of the creation because we are corrupted. Corruption is the disorder of the law, covenants etc. In disorder we experience the weight of corruption. But speaking the gifts we reorder our view and we begin to experience the effervescence of the creation. You must be logical. We cannot be mystical. Disorder is the cause of all of the problems of the soul. This is why carnality is so evil. It is being ruled by disorder and blindness to true beauty.

In the life of meditation we experience our history according to our heightened view through the reordering as a result of the gifts. When we remember the places that in our history we are remembering them on the level of the beauty that we experience as a result of the heightened order. In our natural selves our view is dull. We dont remember the event as a result of reordering our souls. But we remember it in a physical way. But in the life of meditation the past events are remember as a spiritual experience. The Psalmist says that Gods love is better than life. He is saying it is a life where we experience something in light of God creating it or giving it to us by His hand. So we find that the principle of reordering by the gifts is to see everything as a gift to us by God. It is enlarging our hearts to love the object of the creation. But when we are dull we do not experience the bigness of the creation as a gift.