.....And how long have you been a Christian?

I was hit with a thought the other day (I know, that's dangerous for me). Here it is:

God's Word is....well......the very word of the one and only living God, the creator of all things. If that is the case, then shouldn't His word be of greatest importance to us as Christians? Shouldn't we treasure His word, hold fast to it? Shouldn't we "hide it in our hearts"? Shouldn't we...........memorize it?!?

Whoa....memorize?!?! "That's for kids in AWANA," you think. Well, it is GOD's WORD. I guess I think that we should continually be memorizing it and holding firm to it. It is sharper than any two edged sword. We should be ready to offer a defense for what we believe - which requires knowing verses. We should be so familiar with it that we can't help but memorize it.

So....here's the question: How long have you been a Christian? Take that number of years - multiply by 10. What number do you get? For me it's over 260. Can you recite that many verses? I can't. But it sure seems to me that we should be able to memorize at least 10 verses every year. That's less than one per month.

If God's word is the very basis of our lives, then we need to breathe it regularly - which requires memorization. Shouldn't that be a priority?