When a crisis hits and you need to make a wise decision, you will need to already have God’s Word in your heart. Only then will you have a godly reservoir of information to pull from to make the right choice. Let’s call that reservoir your “vat” or your mind. You can’t pull any information out that you don’t put in. If you want to make wise, godly decisions, then you need to be filling your vat with wise, godly words and thoughts. We call that meditating on the Word of God, or memorizing scripture.

Many godly men and women from the past have said that the one thing that has helped them most in their lives was meditating and memorizing scripture. Dr. Henry Brandt states in his book, Heart of the Problem, “Even now, forty years later, I still consider Bible memorization the single most important aid in my Christian life and in my counseling.”

If you want to obey God’s guidelines in your life, then you need these guidelines in your head. Waiting until you are in a crisis is not the time to start memorizing scripture.

Start today by picking one scripture verse that has meaning to you. Write it out on a 3×5 card and carry it with you. Office supply stores have 50 3×5 cards spiral bound to keep your verses together. Look up words that you don’t understand. Discuss the verse with others. Read the verse out loud until you can say it from memory. Put it aside for a few days and see if you can still repeat it from memory. Review your cards regularly and you are on your way to having a vat that is filled with the wisdom you need to make godly decisions in a crisis!

“Blessed is the man… (whose) delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.” (Psalm 1:1-2)

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All of these things can vary depending on who you talk to, or the place or time you are living.  Opinions vary.  Sometimes the same source will change its mind concerning a topic and give the opposite advice at a later time. What do you use to decide?

Many people are living miserable lives because they are confused about what guidelines to use for their life decisions.  God gives us a measuring stick that is unchanging:  the Bible.

God tells us that the written Word that He has given us is “God-breathed.”  That means that the Bible was inspired by God.  Timothy goes on to tell us how valuable God’s inspired Word is to us.  It is helpful for teaching and instructing, reproof when someone has done something wrong, correction to restore someone to a right state, and training in righteousness, which is instruction with the goal of increasing virtue.

Look up the following verses and answer the associated questions:

Hebrews 4:12:  What exposes the thoughts and motives of a man’s heart?

Psalm 1:1-2:  What does a person have to do to be blessed?

Psalm 119:165:  What two things will someone have if they love God’s law?

Matthew 24:35:  What does this verse say will never pass away?

So, what is your measuring stick?  Make a decision today to find out what God says and live by it.  Do you have a plan for reading the Bible?  Why not make a plan today to start reading God’s Word, which has never been influenced by popular opinion!  Have a measuring stick that never changes and will never pass away.

“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.” (2 Timothy 3:16)

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