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Key to Inner Strength
By Ken Horn | December 30, 2009
It’s one of the first verses small children learn in Sunday School. It’s short and simple. Yet it is profound and carries one of the deepest, most important truths in the Bible.
It’s Psalm 119:11: “Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You.” I learned it in the KJV: “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.”
Here’s the simple, profound truth: Scripture memory will make sin less likely.
I have three degrees—a B.S., M.A., and D.Min. But, though I treasure my education, none of it has impacted my life as significantly as my decision to make Scripture memory an important part of my devotional life. When your heart and mind are full of God’s Word, it inclines you to a holy life and disinclines you to sin. It doesn’t make you perfect—that’s still future—but it certainly makes you a better Christian.
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matt. 6:21). If God’s Word is your treasure, your inner life, and your outer behavior will be spiritually strong.
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