Today at Remedy Church we began a new adventure.  We want to set the bar high at Remedy and call you to a deep, strong faith.

So, we began memorizing the book of 1 John today as a church.  This is going to be such a great thing for us as a church.  God will use His Word to shape us, challenge us, convict us and grow us into His image and likeness.

There are a few things I want us to remember as we begin this great journey…

1.)  You can do this!  It’s only 1 verse per day, and usually around 4-5 verses per week, with 2-3 days of review.  I know that you can do it.  It is much easier than you think.  Don’t think of it as memorizing the book of 1 John, instead, think of it as just memorizing A verse of Scripture today.

2.)  It takes about 10-15 minutes in one day to memorize a verse.  We have 1,440 minutes in one day.  Surely we can take 10-15 out of those 1,440 and memorize the Word of God.  The benefits are so great for us spiritually; how could we not?!

3.)  Don’t be legalistic or prideful.  Don’t turn this into a legalistic thing where you begin ending up dreading it and see it as a burden, instead of a great thing that God can use to grow you. There’s always track B. (more on that in #4).  Also, don’t be prideful.  Don’t boast on yourself as you memorize and think yourself to be better than those that aren’t having the same success that you are having.  Instead and be humble and remember as Paul, that anything you do is really God doing it through you and you can’t boast.

4.)  There’s always track B.  Let’s face it, some of us are very busy.  We have 4 children, ages are newborn, 2, 4, & 6.  There’s really no realistic way my wife is going to be doing track A.  But, she can, by God’s grace, attempt track B.  For those of you who are busy, but still see the value in memorizing God’s Word, then maybe track B is for you in this season of your life.  Here is one of the coolest parts, every 2 weeks, we’ll hand out new cards.  So if the last 2 weeks, were busy, but the next will not be busy, then you can pick which track you want to try to do for each 2 weeks.

The goal is to get the Word of God in you, as many verses that you can memorize, so you are growing in your walk with Christ and God is using His Word to shape us and make us more like Jesus.

I love you and believe God is going to do some really great things in our study through 1 John.

Below are both tracks for memorizing in case you missed them today.

Tags: 1 John, Memorizing