Day 15 - ten virgins.

Day 15
Friday is always a day when I have deep thoughts. Hopefully most of them are spiritual deep thoughts. thoughts of God, Thoughts of Scripture. But sometimes probably they are just deep thoughts - and deep only to me.
Its the day I write my Sunday preach. That's what I call it and I'm told others call it a Sunday sermon or a Sunday message - but for me its a preach - it's not just information or exegesis - it is an experience that moves people.

Most of my thougths today involve catechism. Learning the faith. Did you know that by the age of 10 all Jewish boys would know the Torah by heart. Some of them would go further and by 14 some would have memorized all of the Hebrew Scriptures.

Got me thinking about how you can know the Scriptures but miss God. But as I had that thought I realised it was a guilt reaction caused by my own failure to have memorized even one Gospel let alone four of them.

Way back when I was 10 years old I did memorise Matthew 25 to win a prize at church. The weird thing was - why did the leader set Matthew 25 as the passage we all had to memorize - The Parable of the Ten Virgins!! Weird .... there must be less boy giggly passages to memorize that one about 'virgins'.

But apart from that concentrated passage - I can't say I've done much large scale memorization.

I can find my way around the New Testament and large chunks of the Old Testament. I can tell you most theological positions with regards to the Bible; I can give an overview of every Bible book; I can debate most debatable points of the Scriptures - but I can't say I've memorized it.

Does this mean its not 'in' me?

And it should be.

So here's my intentional follow of Jesus today - commit to commit to memory more Scripture this year than in any other year.
I think I'll start with the Matthew 25 passage again and see if my boyish giggles are still there.