I looked up the definition of memorizing today while contemplating my continuous need for meditating on scripture. Websters defines it
Memorizing: to commit to memory: learn by heart.
Not just learn by mind, but by heart. Dallas Willard writes: "...memorization is vital. It is astonishing how little of the Bible is known "by heart" by people who profess to honor it. If we do not know it how can it help us? It cannot. Memorization, by contrast, enables us to keep it constantly before our minds. And that makes it possible to consciously hold ourselves within the flow of God's life which is Torah and Logos."
Click for the rest of Willard's article titled "Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Formation and the Restoration of the Soul" .
Sooo, Here is one I am working on now.
Matthew 11:27-29 (NIV)
27"All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
28"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
1 comment:
Great Quote, baby
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