I Make it a Sport to “Rememberize”
View all responsesI make it a sport to “rememberize.” A friend, JD Walt, likes to use the word his oldest son coined at about five years old. His son said, “I finally ‘rememberized’ it. JD says: “Memorization quick-loads our short-term memory. Rememberization is of another order. It slow-loads our long-term memory.
If you want to remember something, “rememberize” it, don’t just cram it in one side of your mind and out the other. Ponder it, savor it, let it deeply touch your heart. In my life I’ve made it my favorite sport to “rememberize” the Bible.
To hide the word of God
Deep inside your heart
So it can be your light
Requires more than memory
Or Scripture analysis.
It requires insight
That gives your heart delight.
When you read the Bible
With your heart wide open
You’ll have humble eyes
That will see God’s light
And absorb His insight
In a much deeper way
Than just to memorize.
What moves your heart
Merges into
Your memory
But what’s observed
Just by your mind,
Your memory
Often can’t find.
What the shepherds said
About the newborn Christ
Was so much more than words
Heard in Mary’s head.
She treasured what was said
And pondered it in her heart.
Be a full-Bible Christian!
Read the Bible,
Don’t just listen to
Sermons about it.
Ponder the Bible,
Don’t just read it.
Experience the Bible,
Don’t just ponder it.
Demonstrate the Bible
Through the way you live,
Don’t just experience it.
Overflow with the realities
Proclaimed and testified to
Throughout the Bible,
Don’t just demonstrate it.
And above all
Keep your heart
Wide open
To the Bible
And quench not
The Spirit.
Hearing the Bible
Without heart devotion
And holy emotion
Won’t make you a doer
Of God’s word.
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