Mr. Rovey Lopez, a listener from the Philippines, right, tend to ask this, Pastor John, I love

the Bible.

I want my whole life to be gladly given to know Jesus Christ in the Scriptures.

So how do you memorize the Bible?

And what would you advise a 20-year-old like me?

Where should I start?

Well, I do have a concrete idea where I'd like him to start.

And it's partly because of where I'm starting here at the beginning of the year.

I was asked at the Cross Conference several weeks ago in Louisville about Bible memorization.

And I was very excited.

This was just before David Platt stood up to speak, which is kind of an amazing providence

because David recited from memory the entire Romans 1 to 8 in front of 3,500 students.

We were all wonderfully blown away.

In fact, it's interesting just to show the power of the memorized and recited word.

I know a young woman, 13 years old, who was saved, she says, between chapters 4 and 5 of

that recitation.

I heard about that the next morning after that.

So I just want to encourage Rovey that it is worth whatever effort you make to memorize

the Scriptures.

And the reason I told those students that I'm setting off on a higher level of commitment

to Bible memory in 2014 is because I'm getting older.

Things don't stick.

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