We've been thinking all week about the importance of remembering in the Christian life.

Years ago, we carpooled one of our sons with another family, and I was driving our son and their daughter home on the very last day of

class. And a little girl was expressing pretty considerable anxiety about how difficult their next

year at school was going to be. And to my complete astonishment, my young son turned to her and said,

there's nothing to worry about next year, because it's all a matter of revision.

I don't think he knew then at the age of eight or nine or whatever he was,

that he was embracing a rather well-known and particular point of view of a philosophical school.

Because some philosophers have held the view, on the one hand, that the human mind at birth is a tabula rasa.

It's a totally blank slate, like an empty computer disk that needs programmed and populated

with information. But other philosophers and some neuroscientists as well have held the view

that the human brain, the human mind, at least to some extent, comes pre-programmed, already hardwired.

Otherwise how can you explain that human beings everywhere with very different languages

seem by and large to think in the same ways?

Well, no matter whether the empiricists or the inatists, as they're called, are right, one thing

is for sure, none of us is born with the Bible already in our memory banks.

We need to put it there.

We need to program our memories with the truth of Scripture. And as we know from God's Word, this is how our lives are transformed.

The way in which the transformation takes place is by the renewal of the mind,

and the renewal of the mind takes place through the truth of Scripture.

So we need to hide God's word in our hearts.

I don't know if you've ever thought about this, but it's not only true of us that we don't come pre-programmed with the Bible in our minds. It was true of the Lord Jesus.

In his humanity, he had to program his mind with the truth of Scripture.

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