ANATOMY OF A RUMINATOR

Greeting O Ye Cud Chewers. If you are receiving this...you most likely are a RUMINATOR. A ruminator is someone who chews on the Word of God like a cow (a ruminant) chews the cud. A little while back...I began teaching a class at Smyrna Assembly on THE TOPICAL MEMORY SYSTEM. This was systematic memory course where we memorized verses of Scripture that were arranged in various topics. You can get the system at your Christian book stores. It is a system designed by THE NAVIGATORS...and found at NAVPRESS.

One of the verses was found in the first section called the WHEEL One of the spokes in THE WHEEL was for THE WORD. It was Joshua 1:8.

"This book of the law...shall not depart from your MOUTH...but you shall MEDITATE on it day and night...so that you may be careful to DO according to all that is written in it...for then you will make your way prosperous...and then you will have success." (Joshua 1:8).

The word MEDITATE...is from the Hebrew word...hagah (haw-gaw)...which means to murmur (in pleasure or anger)...by implication to ponder, imagine, mediate, mourn, mutter, roar, speak, utter, study, talk.

I began to think about this verse and started "ruminating" about how the verse links...the MOUTH...and MEDITATION...and DOING with the cause and effect being Biblical prosperity (having enough to meet your needs and an overflow to help others) and Biblical success (accomplishing the purposes of God in your life). The LATIN word of meditation is RUMINATE. A quick study shows that a RUMINANT is an animal (cow, sheep, etc)...that has four chambers in the stomach that chewed food passes through and is regurgitated back into the MOUTH in the form of a CUD...that is viewed as standing in a field...contemplating life while chewing away. That is what we do in the RUMINATOR SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS...and the premise for these RAMBLINGS. The COW has become symbolic of moooooooooooving in the Spirit as we study the Word of God. Many members of the HERD have passed through over the years. Always remember this...once a Ruminator...always a Ruminator.

Last Sunday...a fellow chewer of the CUD/WORD OF GOD...Saint John...my Key man...passed on something he found in his files...called
THE DEFINITION OF A COW (A Big City Boy Describes A Cow). The author is unknown but was a found in the September issue of the 1977 American Red Angus magazine.

DEFINITION OF A COW

"A cow is a completely automatic milk manufacturing machine. It is encased in untanned leather and mounted on four vertical, movable supports, one on each corner. The front end contains the cutting and grinding mechanism, as well as the headlights, air inlet, and exhaust, a bumper and foghorn. At the rear is the dispensing apparatus and an automatic fly swatter. The central portion consists of four fermentation and storage tanks connected in series by an intricate network of flexible plumbing. This section also contains the heating plant complete with automatic temperature controls, pumping station and main ventilation system. The waste disposal apparatus is located at the rear of this central section. In brief, the externally visible features are: two lookers, two hookers, for stand uppers, four hanger-downers, and a swishy-wishy. There is a similar machine known as a bull, which should not be confused with a cow. It produces no milk but has other interesting uses."

FINAL THOUGHTS...FINALLY!!!!

Moo to you.

Love and Bovinian Kisses
Rodney "Chewing the Cud" Boyd