Second Friend Day - Elmer Towns

"The Navigators" were born during the Second World War when Dawson Trotman
challenged servicemen to memorize great numbers of texts. One sailor left his packet of verses
lying around and Trotman picked them up to see if its owner could repeat them all. When he
stumbled repeatedly over familiar verses, Trotman said, "That is why the Lord hasn't saved the
240 men on your ship. You do not take the Bible seriously." When you memorize the Bible, you
show God you mean business.
The fourth step is meditation, which is "going over and over" the words in your mind.
The psalmist indicated that the growing Christian is like the growing tree, prospering because of
meditation. "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in
the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and in his law doth he meditate" (Ps. 1:1-2). The psalmist continues, "He shall be like a tree
planted by the rivers of waters, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season" (Ps. 1:3).
You should meditate on the Bible because it is a message from God. A college
sophomore got a daily letter from his girl friend. When he quickly opened and read it in front of
the mailboxes, the other guys teased him. He got in the habit of going to his room so he could
give full attention to every word she said. That is the way to meditate on the Bible.
Because each word has a significance and none are there by error, you should meditate on
every word. You can spend a lifetime studying the Bible and never exhaust its depth.