Why I Read My Bible & Memorize Scripture every day
The main reason I read my Bible, and memorize Scripture is simple. The reason I read the Bible is so that I can know and understand my Bible. Now the reason I memorize Scripture is because then I can meditate, and learn that verse inside and out then it can take part of my life, it can help me think on the Bible when I don't have a Bible with me. Now the reason I memorize Scripture is so I can not be a concordance cripple. But that is not the only reason it starts to become apart of your life. Now the main reason I read is not to be puffed up but I still go to get into the Word every day, as the Word says in Psalm 119:11, " I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you." Now I am not saying that I never sin because, 1 John 1:8 says, " If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." Also we can deceive ourselves, by saying as James 1:22 says, " But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves." So let us just not hear and keep on sinning, but let's also be doers of the Word, and not hearers only. Now what does this all mean, simple If you do not know the Lord, how can you understand or be obedient to Him, and how can we do that if we never read the Bible, or memorize it. So let's not play the hypocrite. I just want to get this point across get into the Word study and learn it and know it. (see 2 Timothy 2:15)
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Amen!
Many professing believers know more lyrics to secular songs than they do scripture! And that's a scary thought... especially when the scripture says He chose to give us birth through the word of truth!
How can we know or trust the Lord if we don't know anything about him - as he has revealed himself through his word!
Luther in his preface to the epistle of Romans makes a statement that doesn’t just apply to Romans, but to the whole word… “It is well worth a Christian's while not only to memorize it word for word but also to occupy himself with it daily, as though it were the daily bread of the soul. It is impossible to read or to meditate on this letter too much or too well.”
It may seem like an impossible task, but start with one verse, add to that another, then another. In time, you will get to the end of the chapter and finally to the end of the book. It’s not a race! Slow, thoughtful meditation is required! Be still and know!
Take Romans 1:1 as an example… “Paul, a bondservant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God”.
That might only take an afternoon to memorise but you could spend an age meditating on the enormity of what he is saying. Ponder the characteristics, attitudes, service of a bondservant. Attempt to plumb the depths of the person and work of Jesus Christ. Think much on the gospel of God. There is a lifetime of thinking triggered by this one verse!
Over the last years I have spent much time in the word memorising it… and here’s a few thoughts I’ve been challenged with in doing so:
1. For what purpose am I memorising the word? Am I doing this with the heart of a Pharisee - because I think in them I have eternal life? Do I do it for the esteem and praise of others? Or do I do it to meet the eternal, living God? Examine yourself!
2. To what end? A parrot can memorise scripture! Am I feeding on it, abiding in it, hearing (& doing it)? Memorising it just to repeat it will not be of much value to you – though it may be of some value to others!
3. You may be so intent on memorising the word, spend so much time on learning the new and keeping the old that it becomes about the memorisation and not the assimilation of it into your life.
4. You believe there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that and shudder! The devil knows scripture – yet it benefits him not! It’s not so much a matter of memorising it, but believing it. And not just believing it, submitting to it, trusting it, obeying it!
5. Stop to consider what you are reciting. Be still and know! I have found often that the word yields much fruit when I first memorise it, because I am thinking on it, meditating on it. But once it is in memory you can so easily recite it and but not think on it!
I aggree with everything you just said brother. AMEN...
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