Getting the metaphor wrong

I've seen this posted several times over the past week. And yes, I'm going on one of my pedantic flights of metaphoric correction here.

The tea bag is placed into the hot water, and the longer the bag is in the hot water, the more what is in the bag changes the water.

But the person being in the Word does not change the Scriptures (though there are plenty of people who try to alter and bend the Bible to match their own preconceptions and desires).

The correct metaphor would have the second sentence be, "The more that God's Word is in you, the stronger your faith." 

We are to consume the Word so that it becomes part of us, integrated into our thought processes and very being. God told Ezekiel, "Eat this scroll." Deuteronomy 8:3 (quoted by Jesus when tempted by Satan in the wilderness) says that "man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord." 

Yes, we need to be "in the Word," but more than that, we need to get the Word into us. To the point that when we are under pressure, what comes out of our mouths is not whining and complaining (much less cursing), but Bible. When we are cut, we should bleed Scripture. 

Being "in the Word" can make me biblically literate. Getting the Word into me, in my heart and soul, will lead to what Dru Johnson calls "biblical fluency," where God's Word infuses and permeates my life and speech.