Day 1 - Week 12!!! - Can you believe it?

Here we are again - starting another week with another verse!  Are you still excited about adding verses from God's Word to your heart?  Don't let your joy be stolen by the temptation to become either discouraged or disinterested...remember all the blessings that will come to your life as you add to your heart each gem of God's treasure that we are mining and, in turn, have them take life in your actions.

I don't mean to make Tuesdays feel like "test nights", but we've got to review if we're going to keep these gems safeguarded!!

Four Corners of the Bible:
Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
John 1:14 "And the Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us; we have seen His glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth."
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life."

Romans Road:
Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of Go."
Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus, our Lord."
Romans 5:8 "But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us."
Romans 10:9 "If you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord', and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved."
Romans 12:1 "Therefore, dear brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship."

The Gift of Scripture:
2 Timothy 3:16 "All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correction, for training in righteousness."
Joshua 1:8 "This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth, you are to recite it day and night, so that you may carefully observe everything written in it.  For then you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do."

Each week, I hesitantly embrace the new verse.  Each week the new verse seems less endearing than the ones already studied and memorized have come to be to me.  But by the end of the week, I always find that the new verse is now just as important to me, just as vital to my thought process as the previous ones have come to be.  Each seems to build on the other and become another critical piece of the beautiful picture of Scripture. 

This last verse has especially taken that route...it seemed so lengthy and difficult to memorize, but the more I let it just "sit" on my heart, it has now taken a very special place in my memory.  I find myself reciting it "day and night" and letting it remind me to recite the remaining verses of our expanding list "day and night", so that they have all become more firmly embedded.  I am amazed at how God is enabling me to memorize this expanding selection of His words to us.

So we come to the beginning of another week...and what is this week's verse?  You'll be glad to know that we get a bit of a reprieve this week with a much easier verse to memorize...

Psalms 119:11, "I have treasured Your word in my heart so that I may not sin against You."

Can we spend a whole week camped out on this brief one-sentence verse?  Yes we can!  And I bet we'll be amazed at what God will allow us to see stored in these sixteen words so poetically phrased by David so long ago.