Scripture Memory Challenge: Verse 2

Here we are already at our next verse for the year!  It's hard to believe that January is half way over.  Where does the time go?  For some of you, this will be your first memory verse for 2013 and we welcome you to this group, and are excited to have you join us!  

I was thinking about what we're tackling for this year….24 verses committed to memory.  That's no small task!  For many of you, this is a return to a discipline you practiced as a young child in Sunday School.  For others this is something you have done in spurts along the way as you've sought to grow in your faith.  Many of us have learned verses as we endured the hard stuff in life - painful, difficult, challenging circumstances where the only thing we had to cling to was a verse or two of God's Word.  

I can remember many times repeating Romans 8:1, There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Or, here's another one:  It was for freedom that Christ set us free, therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. And of course, this one:  "Come to Me all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest.  Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls.  For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."  

There are many others we could all share in light of how God spoke to us through the power of His Word - burned into our hearts and minds thru the fire of trials and adversity, that no one and no situation can ever remove.  While we certainly don't sign-up to go thru dark seasons, we do have the assurance that God's Word really is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path.  And aren't we grateful? 

Our God is not silent - His Word is replete with all evidence to the contrary; from speaking "Let there be light" setting into motion creation as we know it to "Yes, I am coming quickly," in the final chapter of Revelation where He promises a time where "we shall see His face…and shall reign with Him forever and ever."  Can you even imagine?

Well, before we're all delightfully lost in imagining something so wonderful, let me go ahead and post my next verse:

"You are My witnesses," declares the Lord, "And My servant whom I have chosen, in order that you many know and believe Me, and understand that I am He.  Before Me there was no God formed, and there will be none after Me." Isaiah 43:10 (NASB)

 I chose this verse because God really does want us to know and believe Him - and to understand that He alone is God - there is no one like Him and there never will be!  We can believe God - His eternal perfection and power is without equal.

Ladies, it is my prayer and hope that we will be women of the Word - so let's get going with our next round of verses!  Please don't forget to add your comment below - for those of you who commented last week, thank you!  What a blessing to read what you are learning and why.  I found myself wanting to memorize all of them!  :  ) 

If you aren't sure how to add a Comment, you can read Teresa’s previous post titled, ‘Blog Q&A’.  

This is an all-skate, Ladies - we are encouraging and spurring one another on through our posts and comments, so please take a few moments and let us know what God has laid upon your heart to commit to memory!