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“Sometimes I feel like a pastor’s widow,” Delores mentioned.

I was a young pastor working six days a week from early morning until late evening. I rarely came home for lunch since I viewed lunch as a great time to visit with guys in my church. Appointment after appointment filled my day, and visitation consumed most of my evenings. It never dawned on me that my wife sometimes felt like a pastor’s widow.

It was a dark night in Japan in 1991.  I lived with a band of fatigue that stretched across my forehead about the level of my eyes.  The vision impairment, with which I was born, had worn me down after two years of living in that city of 30 million.  I loved the ministry, the pastoring and the people who attended Yokota Christian Center.  I wanted things to go well, but for my body things were falling apart.

Deuteronomy chapter six introduces to us the greatest conversation piece in the world.  Greatest, not in massiveness, but,  greatest in importance to everything that happens in our lives.

God’s Word Equals Success

Proverbs is an amazing book!  It contains so much insight into how God feels about us and how we can live successfully during our days on earth.  I can’t calculate how many times I’ve read this book, but it becomes more enjoyable during each reading of its 31 chapters.

“Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen,” 1 Timothy 1:17.

From the very first session of the scuba diving class I took, our instructor emphasized that you never dive alone.  In fact, he paired all of us into buddy teams.  For the entire semester we always entered the pool with our buddy and carried on our training with our friend at our side.

Let’s be totally honest—not all the Bible is interesting.  In fact, some of the genealogies and other areas I call Fast Forward Chapters.  Since I only use electronic devices for reading, I come to some sections of Scripture that I refer to as fast forward chapters.  At the touch of a button my victor reader speeds through the section in Leviticus or Chronicles or wherever else I am and, poof, there I am at something I can comprehend and not fall asleep.

The point of this blog is:  Don’t give up your Bible reading when it’s boring or uninteresting.  Consistent reading of Scripture equates to consistent breathing—you have to do it!  It’s no sin to skip over a portion of Scripture in order to reach a more stimulating portion of the sacred writ.  It’s a deadly mistake to completely stop reading the Words of God.

During the summer before my senior year in high school I surrendered myself to Jesus and a couple of months later received an experience called the baptism into the Holy Spirit.  These two encounters with the Spirit of God radically changed me and the direction of my life.  When my pastor saw the my new love of the Lord, he took time to show me his Bible verse memorizing method.  I adopted his suggestion and started a life long Bible memorizing program.  Soon Bible memory became a good, healthy addiction.

At age 33 my vision impairment precluded using my eyes to read.  Therefore, I started using electronic devices to read the Bible and I soon started using these same devices to help with memorization.

Now that I’m 67, it’s becoming difficult to read the largest of print.  No problem for my memorizing addition though.  My wife or secretary reads the book, chapter and verse onto a digital recorder.  I use another aid for the visually impaired called a Victor Reader to look up the verses and record them on a digital device. Then I use this recording to review my memory verses.  What a deal—you can’t keep an old guy down.

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Memorize Scripture for Meditation

“Moses, we’re tired of this manna. Manna in the morning, manna in the evening, manna day after day. Give us meat to eat!”

     The Lord responded to the peoples’ demand by saying, “Now the Lord will give you meat and you will eat it, you will not eat it for just one day or two days or five, ten or twenty days, but for a whole month…” Numbers 11:18-20.

     God’s spectacular promise busted Moses’ budget. The amount of meat God promised did not fit into Moses’ mental calculator. “And Moses said, ‘Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot and you say I will give them meat to eat for a whole month. Would they have enough if flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? Would they have enough if all the fish in the sea were caught for them?’” (Numbers 11:21-22.)

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