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Psalm chapter 119 verse 72,

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

That's a good verse and a convicting verse.

Think about it. I have used this illustration before and actually used it in my most recent book,

Don't Hold Back. When it comes to memorization of the Bible, well, I would just ask you,

are you memorizing scripture? Do you have a regular pattern of memorization of the Bible?

And in that book specifically, I encourage people to memorize chapters, even books of the Bible,

which may seem like a major leap, like impossible for you. And many people say,

I'm just not very good at memorization. But is that true? And the illustration I use is what,

what if I told you that over the next 24 hours, I would give you $1,000 for every verse you could

memorize. I'm guessing you could learn pretty quick to memorize, at least some, like Jesus wept,

John 1135. There you go. There's $1,000. And then to continue on, I think if that was true,

like if I really was going to give you $1,000 for every verse you can memorize, I think most every one of us,

unless we have a particular challenge that's unusual when it comes to memorization, I think we would

do it. So that's the question then. What's more important to us? Money or God's Word? And Psalm 119,

verse 72, just said the law of your mouth, the law from God is better than thousands of gold and

silver pieces. So the question is not, can we memorize? The question is, how much value do we see in

the Word of God? Which do we value more? God's Word or money? And I want to encourage you,

based on the value of God's Word, clearly expressed in Psalm 119, verse 72, to memorize it, to hide it

in your heart, like Psalm 119 says earlier, knowing that it's better than gold, it's better than money.

God, help us, we pray, to value treasure your Word for what it is. God, help us to see that it's

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