Every day we are faced with challenges, decisions, and circumstances that need our response.  I don't know about you, but I find myself forced to make many decisions a day, and many times I need an answer, and I need it fast!  Where do you find your help?

Cornell University did a study that shows that we make 35,000 decisions a day and 226.7 of those are about food alone!  We are in constant need of God's help. 

I learned many years ago that the best way to help myself in a decision-making process, was to do as follows:

1.  Seek God in PRAYER

2.  Seek God's WORD

3.  Seek WISE COUNSEL

But I also learned when I was in crisis mode, that I would pray and God would prompt my mind to remember the wisdom of the Bible ... His Word for us.  If we don't have His Word stored in the filing cabinets of our minds, as well as living and breathing in the essence of the corridors of our hearts, we are not utilizing God's tools for living our BEST LIFE.

Memorizing scripture  isn't easy for everyone, but if we look at this verse in James, we can see that God has laid out a pattern for us to learn His Word. 

"Whoever looks intently into the perfect law ... and continues in it --not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it--they will be blessed in what they do."  James 1:25 (NIV) 

1.  STUDIES IT:   "Whoever looks intently"

2.  STANDS FIRM IN IT:  "continues in it"

3.  SOAKS IT IN THEIR HEART:  "not forgetting what they have heard."

4.  SETTLES INTO IT:  "but doing it."

This month, Best Life encourages you to study God's Word, and soak it into the very core of who you are, by MEMORIZING it.  Take a little bit at a time, because when we know God's Word, we LIVE God's Word, and we become our BEST.

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Here's to memorizing and making life better ...

"If you're serious about being spiritually strong and mature, the greatest habit you can develop is memorizing scripture."
 

Rick Warren

Lead Pastor, Saddleback Church, Orange CA

If you have reveled in a maple tree

Flaunting the brilliance of its scarlet cloak,

Or watched black lines of geese wing wild and free

Above the hills of autumn, and the smoke

From burning leaves rise gragrant on the air, Seen spikes of goldenrod line every road

And light fence corners with a yellow flare,

Glimpsed empty summer nests, once the abode

Of singing bird, on leafless dark-etched bough,

Joyed in bright petals clinging to a stalk

Sun-dried and brittle, petals to endow

With gallant color paths white frost must walk ...

If you have loved the rain of maple leaves,

Then you have known the spell that autumn weaves.