Miller's Point of Poetry in the Bible

I have recently been reading the book "Searching for God knows what" by Donald Miller. It is a wonderful book discussing Spirituality and the Bible. In my readings Miller's view of the Bible's poetic structure and how it brings the words within scripture to a level that touches the Soul of a human being. Miller describes how we in a world of spelled out agendas and to do lists prefer our religion to be more rigid and listed out. The "do" and "don't" lists of right and wrong. He writes of a scenario of where a man writes down his love's qualities on a piece of paper and passes it to her over dinner. Sure, the lists reads of all her beautiful characteristics, but will probably just pass it off and will not be remembered or feel it move her. However, if he were to write a poem describing her qualities she will most likely be wooed and will be touched by the effort and the beauty of the poem. She will be touched. The Bible uses these poems in the same manner to touch our very soul and bring text to life.

I knew before reading this insight by Miller that poetry touches us in places deep within us. However, upon meditating on this concept I have begun to realize my love of the King James Version even now as I have moved on to other current versions of the Bible. The poetic language the King James Version is written in brings so much of the text on the page to life in a way that strikes your very soul as beautiful and meaningful, almost as if the text is alive....

Remember when you first meet that special someone and words didn't seem to describe that person, but poetic language seemed to get your point across. It is kinda like that.

The truth is that the Bible and those that wrote it couldn't put it all into words either. So, they used poetic language to touch our souls and help us understand a being and wisdom of a creator that is out of this world.