We are as riddled with chiastic structures as the Word!

Just as it is easier to swallow bread with wine or some other beverage, so is it easier to make love of God and the neighbor (bread) part of oneself if instructed in the spiritual truth which teaches that love (wine).

We learn truth about love rather earlier than we particularly practice that love, because our fallen natures, the old man, are reluctant to give way to the new creation in Christ, the new man. This is why light was created long before the Sun and Moon: because spiritual enlightenment precedes particularly noteworthy, actual expression of love and wisdom in a ripening believer's life. 

Gradually we go further and further within as though we were gradually removing layers from the rotten onion of self love. The person who ceases to boast on the outside may, as it were, still have to confront the 'big bosses' of ever more interior expressions of that particular sin. 

The person who boasts on the outside may, as it were, boast on the inside; and ever more inside.

There is, moreover, no evil without its excuse; as there is no good without its excuse. There is no bread of wickedness without its wine of violence and no bread without its wine, no love without its wisdom, no hatred without its excuse. 

The living God is full of love and wisdom and is "joy unspeakable and full of glory"; and the Word is full of all the varieties of love and wisdom, sin and darkness. It contains these relations in their taxonomic variety in such a way as to express all goods and truths and sins and errors in a 'line of best fit', elegant way. 

Where is the beast without its bird? Where is the Sun without its Moon? Where is the Gold without its silver?

Where is honor without glory? Where is shame without contempt? Where is anger without confusion of faces? Where is the Sun shining sevenfold without the Moon shining as the Sun?

We, like the living God and like the Word, are full of beasts and birds and Sun and Moon and gold and silver and bread of some quality and wine of some quality. We, too, are absolutely riddled with chiastic structures, and it has pleased the living God to give us a Word thus abounding in these. 

We do not hunger without accompanying ideation. We do not thirst without accompanying ideation. We do not lust without accompanying ideation. And we do not experience any emotion without some ideation in relation to it.

In other words, we have actually been given something of supreme relevance to the warp and woof of our real, spiritual lives in the chiastic taxonomy of the Word: exactly the chiasm of will and understanding which best meets our real, higher needs, it contains enormous amounts of useful information.

We have been commanded to "Watch and pray", and He especially wanted us to watch the inside. We should look for and will certainly find numerous chiastic structures present in our feelings and thoughts.

If we find ourselves experiencing a contemptuous feeling about someone, we might also catch ourselves playing host to excuses for feeding that feeling.

If we find ourselves depreciating a category of people, we may also see excuses for that, as well as other thoughts variously facilitative of continuance in such depreciation.

We are ever eating bread and drinking wine, for we are ever feeling and thinking.

"I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings" (Jeremiah 17:10).

Here, the chiastic structure is heart and reins. That is because heart is the will or plate part of the chiasm; and reins is the understanding or cup part of the same.  The reins are the kidneys, of course, and this occupies the understanding half of the chiasm because kidneys process liquids! Truths and falsehoods in the thoughts.

On account of exactly what He wants to accomplish in relation to our personal wills and understandings He has provided exactly a best fit textbook congruent with our interiors. He has, as we say, 'removed all the stops'! He has optimized our perfection as to feeling and to thought with elegant taxonomy perfectly suited to this optimization.

It is the will of God that you look for chiastic structures in yourself and the Word, not taking anything on blind faith, so as to optimize becoming a better person with thoughts that are genuinely loving; and ever more loving. 

There isn't a one of us who isn't in some state of will and understanding, and therefore of plate and cup. What can possibly be more relevant than a Textbook specializing in precisely that? Such is the Word of Jesus Christ, our "mighty God" and "everlasting Father" (Isaiah 9:6). 

Godspeed on the Way!