I ran to my dresser, pulled out the package, and read the instructions. Within an hour I was working on my first verse. That verse took me a week of determined repetition before it was firmly imprinted in my mind. But I was coming. That package and, later, other tools would become a focal point of my spiritual life. Words to Remember I know how difficult it is to motivate people to memorize the scriptures. Churches present programs, pastors exhort and disciples encourage, but little memory work is done. Our life in the nineties became so messy that we were in my room, praying, when all of a sudden I said, "What the hell is wrong, Lord? My brain waves are crazy." Head. Remember that packet of Bible mementos you threw at the bottom of the drawer? Maybe you'd better work on it. I hadn't thought about it for two days. I remember when I first started memorizing scripture. I became a Christian in the summer of 1972, after graduating from college. The next year I decided not to bother the business world with my presence, so I became a ski bum at Stiatton Mountain in Vermont. I was a short order chef at breakfast, lunch and dinner and a manic skier the rest of the day. the time. I loved it. One day I received some information from a Christian college organization. They included a booklet with a list of their tools and books used in discipleship and testimony. I scanned the list and noticed an offering called “Bible Memories Bundle.” The description explained the secret and necessity of memorizing the Bible. So I added it to my already long shopping list and sent the list off with a check. Three weeks later I received several books, over a hundred tracts and my Bible... in the middle of a sheet of paper... ..and you memorized from another, especially if you start memorizing entire books of Scripture . You become able to correlate truths and concepts, not just words.8. God gives you the mental capacity for something more. One thing that always worried me when memorizing scripture was reaching a saturation point. Would my mind reach a point where there was just too much? Would I start to overflow, unable to hold any more? I have been memorizing for over seventeen years now and there is no stopping point in sight. In fact, my mind has become sharper, more logical, more capable of assimilating data than ever before. It affects everything: in my work, in my home and in my hobbies. The beauty of Bible memorization is that with effort, anyone, anywhere can do it. You don't have to be a genius. But it takes discipline. You just have to decide that you will do it. The question is: will you??