Have you ever stopped and looked around at the furnishings of a room and remembered that all these things are temporal? Think of the time and money that have gone into things like cars, clothes, food or entertainment. Even the laptop I’m typing on this very minute cost a good deal of money and yet, no matter how well I try to care for it, it will eventually break down.
None of the things that are tangible around us will last; we did not take them into this world, and it is certain we cannot bring them out. Everything will be destroyed… except three things: the Word of God, the deeds done in the body and the souls of men. If these three things, then, are the only ones that will last through Eternity, surely we should give them the utmost priority in our lives!
Young ladies in southeastern South Dakota have chosen to do this by working together to give the Word of God first place in their hearts! Together as a team we are studying to show ourselves approved unto God, equipping ourselves with answers straight from the Bible so we can answer those who ask us of the hope they see in our lives. We are exhorting and edifying one another and exalting God’s Word as the instruction manual for how to live our lives.
How are we doing this? By setting up Scripture Memory Challenges, girls as young as 7 years old are motivated to memorizing chapters of Scripture by themselves, with sisters, mothers or friends. I have rejoiced to see the diligence and perseverance that have been exercised and the encouragement that has been passed around as some, when goals were set before them, go above and beyond what they previously were unsure that they could do.
It is a comfort to know that, should the freedom of owning our own Bibles ever be taken away from us, in this little corner of the world, we still would not lose books of the Bible including Proverbs, Romans, James, Philippians, and I and II Thessalonians, due to motivated memorizers.
See what can be accomplished when Christians embrace high expectations and join arm in arm to meet them? We are a big family in the Lord—a team—laboring together, rejoicing together, reaping together. God’s Word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path—and now it is hid in our hearts to be a continual source of doctrine, reproof, correction and instruction in righteousness that we may be thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
“Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might
not sin against thee” (Psalm 119:11).
~ Emily
http://everythoughtcaptive.blogspot.com
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