MEMORY IS A FRIEND OR AN ENEMY. IT JUST DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU MEMORIZE.

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During World War II, our armed forces found fighting in jungles much more nerve racking than regular combat: - what with snipers firing from the treetops, from tangled jungle, always from unexpected places. The morale of our troops was badly shattered.

One young man who had survived many such fighting forays, both geographically and psychologically, was brought before the Defense Department in Washington, D.C. and asked how he had managed to come through so many nerve shattering experiences and still keep his mental and emotional equilibrium? His answer was somewhat unexpected. He replied, “I had memorized the 23rd Psalm.”

I tell you this. He hadn’t just memorized the Psalm. He truly believed it. He truly believed in a great God and His great promises about anxiety, power and immortality. By finding the source of life, he also found he could live with courage or die with dignity, whichever was the will of the Lord.

His answer was THE answer, but one the Defense Department was not quite equipped to make use of. It was not something that could be prepared in triplicate, nor a vaccination that could be administered. Even if they had wanted to, his answer can never be given, it must be found individually.

It is the same today. Faith can be explained - to some extent; it can be offered. But actually, your faith factor, your belief in God must be reached for by you, taken by you.

You see, before that young man could stand up and say that all of this happened because he had memorized the 23rd Psalm, there had to be a first time that he just read the Psalm.

And the first time he read that Psalm maybe it really had little meaning at all. Then he read it again, and again, and finally he memorized it; engraved it across the very texture of his soul. He had taken it as his own.

When Paul had his Damascus Road experience, do you think that was the only time he had ever traveled that road? Hardly. It is just that he was at the right place at the right time with the right attitude. The power and presence of Christ was offered and taken, and Saul became Paul.

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