Primary Components - Bible Memorization May 3, 2007
Posted by Erin in : Family Worship Series , trackbackJoe,
Thanks for the great exhortation to pray. I am sure that others reading it were stirred in their private prayer life as well as in praying together as a family as I was.
I am going to talk about a fourth primary component of family worship times, being that of Bible memorization. This is an area that we did not employ until a few months ago, but I think has already reaped some rewards and will bear much fruit in the future.
Bible memorization has been a great tool to store God’s Word into our heart as a family. As we memorize Scripture, we are then able to use that Scripture in the every day training and teaching of our children.
But not only are we able to use this Scripture right now, but we are giving our children a great start in the battle against sin. So many times in my walk with Christ have I wanted to have a Scripture that speaks to me right on the tip of my tongue. And although I have memorized a relatively good amount of God’s Word in my 6 1/2 years as a Christian, I would always love to have more. Imagine the gift you can give your child if they start memorizing Scripture at an early age.
I will try and pull out some of Joe’s math here to illustrate this. If you average over the years of their lives from ages 3-18 about 1 verse every two weeks (and I think these numbers are easily attainable when looking at averages over these years), they are memorizing about 26 verses a year for 15 years. After those 15 years they will have stored up 390 Bible verses! I know for sure I don’t have that many memorized right now!
This is a wonderful practice to teach your children to employ in their lives. Many people are so intimidated by Scripture memory, but when taught at an early age to start, it does not seem intimidating. And the earlier they start the easier time they will have with fighting the flesh to make it a part of their every day battle for joy in God.
We will give some helps for memorizing Scripture if you want to do it a verse at a time. But what we are doing right now is taking larger portions of Scripture and memorizing them. We are working our way through the Sermon on the Mount right now and take a section at a time to be memorized. All we do is continually read it over and over again and slowly it is memorized. I believe we started this about 3 months ago and we already have 26 verses memorized. That is well beyond by verse every two week average!
So I encourage every family to take some time to add Scripture memory to their daily family time. It will reap great rewards both now and in the future!
Storing God’s Word in my heart with you,
Erin
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