Why Memorize God's Word?

                                            

Ps 119:11

                     Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

                                         Why memorize Gods Word?

by Anne Adams

Memorizing God’s Word has been so helpful in my life.  I did not live for the Lord my whole life. I have many regrets & have learned that in order to control my mind that I need to use the Word of God.

“Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore.”

― Charles H. Spurgeon "

It helps me with my spirit & attitude. Satan would like to use my past against me by bringing up past sin. God does not want us to dwell on past sin for the shame it brings us or for the pleasure of remembering something sinful. 

Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

God commands us to memorize His Word 

Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Psalm 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

To keep us from sin

Ps 37: 31  The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

Daily we are tempted to sin, if we have the Word of God memorized then we are prepared as Jesus was to use the Word of God as a weapon.

Matthew 4:3 & 4 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Memorize HIS WORD because we LOVE GODS WORD! 

Ps 119:9 O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

There are so many reasons to memorize God's Word. My prayer as I get older is that when my mind starts to go, that I will have so much of God’s Word memorized that my life may be a testimony of God’s Word by letting HIS WORD come out when I have forgotten the rest! 

Oh, that you and I might get into the very heart of the Word of God, and get that Word into ourselves! As I have seen the silkworm eat into the leaf, and consume it, so ought we to do with the Word of the Lord—not crawl over its surface, but eat right into it till we have taken it into our inmost parts. It is idle merely to let the eye glance over the words, or to recollect the poetical expressions, or the historic facts; but it is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until, at last, you come to talk in Scriptural language, and your very style is fashioned upon Scripture models, and, what is better still, your spirit is flavored with the words of the Lord.

I would quote John Bunyan as an instance of what I mean. Read anything of his, and you will see that it is almost like reading the Bible itself. He had read it till his very soul was saturated with Scripture; and, though his writings are charmingly full of poetry, yet he cannot give us his Pilgrim’s Progress—that sweetest of all prose poems — without continually making us feel and say, “Why, this man is a living Bible!” Prick him anywhere—his blood is Bibline, the very essence of the Bible flows from him. He cannot speak without quoting a text, for his very soul is full of the Word of God. I commend his example to you, beloved.

~Charles Spurgeon~