TODAY’S WORD FOR WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 24, 2016.
MEMORIZATION
The mental capacity or retaining and reviving impressions; remembrance; recollection.
Your Word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against You. Psalm 119:11.
Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Psalm 119:105.
We both remember the importance our parents put on us to memorize verses from the Bible. Every week we memorized a verse and on Sundays in Sunday school we had to memorize a verse from the Bible. We never regretted memorizing these verses because today many of them come to mind when we face concerns in our lives.
We have mentioned several times in these devotionals that when we were raising our family we read the Bible and prayed together every night at dinner. We also all memorized a verse from the Bible together each week. We have continue this, as we are sure you know, as part of these devotionals by suggesting to you a verse to memorize each week as you read these devotionals.
At times we noticed that it almost became a contest among our children as to who could memorize the verse first. But the most important thing that we can see today is that these verses we memorized stuck with us all and literally daily at least one verse will come to our mind.
In the two verses we have listed above you can see the importance from God’s perspective for us to memorize God’s Word. The Psalmist in one verse says to hide (memorize) God’s Word in our heart that we may not sin. When we hide God’s Word in our heart, these scriptures that we memorized will be a constant reminder for us to walk as Jesus wants us to walk and His Word will guide us in that walk. Let us assure you that you will be surprised as to how many of the verses you memorize will come back to you at a time when you have a special need.
We have had requests from areas of the world for just one Bible. They have come from people living in areas where the people are poor and there are no Bibles to buy. When they receive a Bible they tear pages from the Bible and share one page at a time to others in their village. And then a little later after they have memorized some of the verses on the page they have they trade these pages so they can read and memorize another portion of God’s Word. This is such a contrast for us here in America where so many families have numerous Bibles in their house and very rarely open one at all.
Many places that we know of in our world there are believers memorizing God’s Word daily because they know there will be a day when their Bible will be taken away from them so they want to be prepared to always have God’s Word with them.
Thank you for taking the time today, if you are already not doing it, to commit to memorizing the verses we give you weekly in these devotionals. Start with the verse below or one of the two we have listed above. One day you will understand why it is so important for you.
Our memory verse for this week is found in Proverbs 14:12.
There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
Give me a new desire to memorize Your Word. Help me and my family to realize how blessed we are to have Your written Word so we can hide it in our heart. Thank You for the assurance that You have given us in that by hiding (memorizing) Your Word in our hearts that it will help us not sin against You.
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