I remember reading in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes one time a story in which Holmes is told by Watson a scientific fact (seems as if it was that the earth was round) and Holmes said that it was very interesting, but that he would now endeavor to forget it because he did not want to waste his memory on such an item that was of little use to him.  He compared his memory to an attic that only had room for a certain amount of furniture and he was being very particular, which furniture he made room for in his attic.

I have looked at the contents of my “mental attic” and have to say that it is in an amazingly sad state.  There are many, many incredibly useless pieces of mental junk scattered about the place and so I have begun to fix that by treasuring up God’s word in my heart through scripture memory.  Hey, if I can have whole scenes of Monty Python and the Holy Grail stuck in my head from my teen years, I can certainly memorize God’s Word which has eternal value.

I am using Justin Taylor’s Scripture memory plan “Treasuring God’s Truth In Your Heart” as a basis for what I am studying, though rather than using the listed verses I began with Psalm 1:1-2 since it is the basis for my desire to do this -

Blessed is he who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, not stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers, but his delight is in the law of the Lord and on His Law he meditates both day and night

I pray that God will use the words that I memorize to draw me closer to Him.