Thank you so much Peter....Joosep, thank you for what you shared. knowing Him better is my deepest desire. It is beginning to replace desires I had in this world.
God is good. There is something so special about not just reading a passage, but repeating it, memorizing it, and through that process truly meditating on it. Doing that deepens our understanding of the truths in that passage and help us to know Him better.
Thank you so much Peter....Joosep, thank you for what you shared. knowing Him better is my deepest desire. It is beginning to replace desires I had in this world.
I've known this story for about 3 months now. Then when I met you all, and what you're doing with your memorization, especially whole books, etc, that gave me the glimmer of hope I needed. So I want to thank you all.
So supposedly someone I met who travels the world speaking was approached by a woman (I think Australia?) who told him that she has memorized the entire Bible. Prior to all of this I would not have thought that it was humanly possible. But now I have a little glimmer of hope.
But the guy I'm speaking of, we've wondered if he had the Bible memorized himself because he'll use a bunch of scripture passages, no PowerPoint, and never seems to have to open the Bible. I've seen him in person as well as YouTube.
For example, he'll bring out a point and say something like, "Let's turn our Bibles to Hebrews Chapter 1, and start from verse 1." So we're all flipping the pages of our Bibles, except him. Then he'll say, "Let's read." Then we'll all be reading, meanwhile every word is coming out of his head. Then after reading 5 verses or so, he may say, "Good, now let's got to verse 8 and continue to 14", and then he'll complete his thought. This is all sermon long. Meanwhlle, he keeps the message thought provoking.
I never did ask him how much of the Bible he has memorized.
Mark is the shortest of them all, but also maybe is the most vigorous? I like how John emphasizes Christ's Divinity.
I haven't committed to a book as yet, but I have started the first 14 verses of John in the New Testament, and Genesis 1 in the Old.
Don't think you will be disappointed with any of the epistles you've mentioned. There are some strong lessons in the first chapters of both Hebrews and Romans.