Confronted with the prevalent difficulty of remembering scripture, I asked the Holy Spirit to show me the best way to overcome any personal difficulty, that I might commit much scripture to memory.  This is what He showed me.  The new testament is structured with perfect intention.  The synoptic Gospels acquaint us with Jesus, thoroughly describe his ministry, his following and the tragic/joyous events that washed mankind of its sins.  Then the writings in Acts, demonstrate the birth of Christianity and how it took physical action for there ever to have been a church, also fully establishing that serving God came with a price.  Then we are educated on what it means to be a Christian in Romans and directed toward an appropriate Christian walk as each church has their costly behavior evaluated in Paul’s epistles to the churches.  Finally we are shown what it means to mature and become ready, ready for what you say?  Ready for the most important episode in Mankind’s history, the Glorious Appearing of Christ the King.  Hebrews through Jude, call us to awareness, clarity, maturity, action and diligence, culminating in Revelation, the Book that ties together the entire Bible in finality.

This structure allowed me to rapidly seek out scripture based on the specific life disciplines in which I was seeking mastery.  If I wanted to quote Christ, I went to the synoptic Gospels.  If I wanted to learn measures for the defense of the faith, I turned and learned from Romans, Hebrews and Ephesians.  If I was seeking methods to defend my family from the enemy I turned to Hebrews, Ephesians, 1 and 2 Peter and John, Timothy, Jude or Revelation.  This process of selective review and identification allowed me to write down certain scripture and memorize them.  This has become pivotal to my practiced faith and powerful witness.  There is nothing more potent in testimony then pulling out the two-edged sword of God to fertilize a seed or water a crop.

Then the Holy Spirit did the same for the entire Old Testament, providing me clarity on the appropriate location to seek specific wisdom.  This guidance overcame my fear, apprehension of mis-comprehensive scriptural memorization inefficiency.  I began to see why Jesus spoke to satan from Deuteronomy.  Truth is what sets us free, we simply have to perform the conditional requirements Jesus said were present in order to be given the truth.  I pray that you seek the Holy Spirit’s guidance and are able to graduate your faith from a level of self-expression or self-definition to the utilization of God’s own word, thereby eliminating any potential argumentative compromise based upon the fallibility of the speaker vs. the author and employing the potency and power of the Holy Spirit toward salvation of humanity.