I was doing great on my Bible memorization for a while, but have slacked off lately. Here are some convicting words I read today that have spurred me on to begin again with memorizing a verse every week:
"You may doubt that you can do this, especially if you are older. But ask yourself this question, If I offered you $1,000 for every verse you memorized in the next week, how many do you think you could memorize? Yet God says of his word in Psalm 19:10-11, "They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb. Moreover, by them Thy servant is warned; in keeping them there is great reward."
The real value of the word is far greater than $1,000 a verse. The question is, Do you believe this? Believing this will be the crucial motivation you need."
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Let me preface my comment in two ways:
1) I agree that memorizing individual verses is important.
2) I admit that I do not commit enough of my time to memorizing individual verses.
Having admitted both the value and my slothfulness in memorizing individual verses, let me also say that I believe it to be more important to memorize the ideas that passages, indeed even books, of Scripture teach. Doing so not only helps on to avoid faulty proof-texting (Phil. 4:13 anyone?), but it also provides us with a deeper understanding of the individual verses we ought to be memorizing as well.
In other words, both/and is what I would recommend to myself and to others, again admitting that I need to do better in heeding my own advice.
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