Last week I had one day that was especially hard, appointments and meetings one after another and some of them were… What’s the word? Not easy, sometimes a bit tense. It was the kind of day that a spiritual person thinks, “Get me through this, Lord.”
My parents and Lutheran school teachers threatened we’d never see adulthood if we didn’t learn our memory work. Five days a week all through grade school we had to stand up and recite. Every school night before bed we had to recite our memory assignment to dad or mom. Hymns were part of the discipline. So on that tough day last week, one line became my prayer before each new appointment or meeting. “I need Thy presence every passing hour.” Did God call up that memory for me? I think so and it gave me calm throughout the day. By the way, the line is from “Abide with me; fast falls the eventide.”
We’re never too old to memorize some precious promise. Never too old to get the cobwebs out of childhood memory work. “These words that I command you this day shall be on your heart.” (Deuteronomy 6:6)
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