Scripture Memory 2012: Verse 18

Thanks to my lovely sister, I found a new blog that I really like. It's called To Love, Honor and Vacuum: Real Marriage. No Pretensions.

The blog is written by a Christian author from Canada, and it is obviously mostly about marriage. I was so happy that my sister recommended it to me because like I told her, Andy has been easily winning the "best spouse award" around here and I want to give him a run for his money.

One of the most popular (and most "pinned") blog posts from To Love, Honor, and Vacuum is her post called, "50 Most Important Bible Verses to Memorize"


It's a great list of verses to memorize if you ever have trouble coming up with a verse you want to work on. It's also a great list to have your whole family work on (if you are that ambitious!). I really like the author's comments about memorizing the 50 verses (She also recommends a few chapters to memorize):

Look at it this way: if you spend one year memorizing the fifty verses, and the next year reviewing those fifty and memorizing a chapter, and then go back to those fifty verses again to make sure you have them down, and then the next year go back and do a different chapter, and so on, over the course of ten years you’ll have 50 verses and 5 chapters so committed to memory there is no way anyone could ever forget it.

And I think knowing fewer verses, but knowing them inside and out, is sometimes more beneficial in the long run than trying to make yourself learn a verse a day or something.

So, for my verse this time around, I wanted to use one from her list.

Megan L. from San Marcos "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV

Scripture Memory 2012: Verse 17

In the book Discipline of Grace, Jerry Bridges talks about the importance of preaching the gospel to yourself every day. This helps us walk that line between trying to be good enough to somehow earn God's love and taking God's grace for granted. We are sinners, saved only by a costly grace through Christ alone.

Bridges recommends meditating on Romans 4:7-8 as one of the verses to use as you preach the gospel to yourself and I'm going to use it as my memory verse this time around.

Megan L. from San Marcos
Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.

Romans 4:7-8 NIV

Here are more verses about God's awesome and total forgiveness:

He washes you. (Psalm 51:7)
He takes your sin far away. (Psalm 103:12)
He seals your sin in a bag and covers over it. (Job 14:17)

He treads it underfoot and hurls it into the depths of the ocean. (Micah 7:19)
He wipes it out. (Isaiah 43:25)
He chooses not to remember it. (Hebrews 10:17)
He puts it behind His back. (Isaiah 38:17)

Lord, help us live as those who know the gospel and live according to its power!