Nah, I'm not worried about the points, I've just had my eye on wanting to join that multimillionaires club since I first joined in 2019 :D
And that is good encouragement. I've been a follower for... geeze, almost 30 years now (I can't be that old...) and have had my ups and downs. This last year has been a great blessing for me with reading the Bible a lot more consistently (I slowed down and lowered my goal instead of trying to keep up with a through the Bible in a year plan again).
But I keep going back and forth on ... well, not the importance, but the priority of scripture memorization. It just takes so much dedicated time (5 mins a day is easy to start but as you memorize more, that time quickly grows).
Praise God that I got a new job this year, and it has really helped me reduce my stress by 10 fold, and given me more time at home as well, and let me get a more consistent morning routine going. While thinking on Psalm 1 (one of the first chapters I memorized) I was just reminded of the importance of making scripture memorization a priority. So here I am again. :)
I've been trying to decide what to work on next after finishing Romans 12.... Philippians 3 looks really good... that is definitely a top contender. :D
So the goal here is to try to learn one new verse a day, and then continue practicing your recently learned verses. You can do more or less, but one per day is a good goal. Then you can use the leaderboard for this group to track how each other are doing. Good luck and may this challenge bless us all. :)
Yeah, the gamification is a great motivation when we get started, but it can quickly cause burn out if we don't fall in love with the process itself and continue at it. Just look at my history on this site... :P
THank you, Joosep. May we all keep moving forward. :D I'm working through Romans 12 right now, and meditating on it while trying to memorize it is exactly the message that I need to hear right now.
I did too much too fast last time and when I broke my streak I just didn't care anymore lol. Now I'm trying to take it slower and just catch up with all my verses without trying to learn something new every day.