More on Memorizing and Meditating

(If you still need the study for this week it is directly below this post)

Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day. Psalm 119:97

Charles Spurgeon once said, "It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until, at last, you come to talk in Scriptural language, and your spirit is flavored with the words of the Lord, so that your blood is Bibline and the very essence of the Bible flows from you."

On memorization Dallas Willard writes,
"Bible memorization is absolutely fundamental to spiritual formation. If I had to choose between all the disciplines of the spiritual life, I would choose Bible memorization, because it is a fundamental way of filling our mind with what it needs. This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth. Thats where you need it! How does it get in your mouth? Memorization."

John Piper wrote in his book "When I Don't Desire God" that memorization "offers us all day the immediate beauty of Christ in his Word, and it offers us all day the weapons by which we cut the nerve of sin's sweet deception...Memorizing Scripture is one of the surest routes to going deep with God and walking in communion with him. Which means walking in joy."

Charles Spurgeon wrote that John Bunyan had "studied the (Bible) till his whole being was saturated with Scripture; and ...his writings...continually make us feel and say, 'Why this man is a living Bible!' Prick him anywhere; and you will find that his blood is Bibline, the very essence of the Bible flows from him. He cannot speak without quoting a text, for his soul is full of the word of God."

Last quote I promise:

John Piper on why he places so much emphasis on memorization in his ministry,

I spent this much time on Bible memory because I believe in the power of the indwelling word of God to solve a thousand problems before they happen, and to heal a thousand wounds after they happen, and to kill a thousand sins in the moment of temptation, and to sweeten a thousand days with the 'drippings of the honeycomb.' Christ will be seen as the fortune he is when we treasure his word more than money, and when the joy it wakens overflows with sacrificial love."


Let me challenge you to begin memorizing God's word this week so much say that you begin thinking and talking in "scriptural language."