Memory Verse: January 2010

We’ve been picking verses on a monthly basis to memorize together for a while now. To be honest, I think we can both say that we haven’t been very diligent about actually memorizing them. Reading them to ourselves on a regular basis throughout the month so we can recite it at the end of the month, yes. Memorizing, not so much. (Perhaps we’d surprise ourselves if we tried to go through them, though.) Maybe we need some accountability. Maybe we’ll find it here. Please ask us about these verses when you see us or whenever you think of it.

This month’s verse is Deuteronomy 11:18-19 – inspired by Noel Piper in her book, Treasuring God in Our Traditions:

You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul; you shall bind them as a sign on your hand; they shall be frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

We picked this verse because we want Analiese to know who Jesus is. We want him to be a topic of our every day conversations, actions and prayers – not just on Sundays or around holidays, but on a regular, daily basis, we want to be teaching her about God and his saving grace that he has to offer her.