Hide and Seek

Can you say with sincerity and practice with integrity, “Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You” (Psalm 119: 11)?

Are you continuing to add in your mental storehouse additional Bible principles? Memorization is excellent mental exercise. It is a means of developing mental sharpness. Mental acuity is something to be sought.

To offer a technique for memorization consider II Peter 1: 5 – 9: 5 “…add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.”

At first glance that may appear too much to try to memorize. Try breaking it down as follows and it becomes easier.

“…add to your faith virtue
to virtue knowledge
to knowledge self-control
to self-control perseverance
to perseverance godliness
to godliness brotherly kindness
to brotherly kindness love.

For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.”

It is the principle of how to eat an elephant. Cut it up into bite size pieces.

Once they are memorized, reflect on them often lest you forget them. By reflecting on them they are more likely to become your character traits.

Studies show that having information stored in your memory is what enables you to think critically. Critical thinking leads to the ability to solve problems. The more factual knowledge people have about a topic, the better they can think about it critically and analytically. In other words, the truths become instinctive, your basic nature. When people see information only once, they forget 70 to 80% of it within two weeks. They’re much more likely to remember information if they repeatedly try to recall it after it’s been partially forgotten.

Now you have been provided information on how to memorize Scripture and why, resolve to do it.

Are you practicing the words of God so that at the end of each day you can say, “With my whole heart I have sought You; Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments!” (Psalm 119: 10).