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memorization is an effective tool, it won't do you good if you can't look into the content of it.

In fifth grade I memorized Hebrews 12:1 "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us."

I've struggled with this. God's put it on my heart to correct certain areas of my life through this verse.

When making a change for God I have noticed that it anything but easy. I will be tempted, I will be made fun of, I will, more than likely, be knocked down.
But I will overcome, I will walk away, I will get back up. I will do all of this through Christ and for Christ.

Just recently I was asked these two questions:
Are you willing to break our culture's rules to experience God's best?
Are you willing to give Him everything, committing yourself to Him with abandon?

Who am I to shy away from what the Creator of the universe has in store for me?
Do I consider myself more wise than Him ?
My Father gave His Son, His one and only Son, to die for me.
Giving Him my everything is but a small token of the enormous gratitude I owe.

Here's a story told by Ravi Zacharias through Joshua Harris:

One day a boy who has a bag of marbles proposes a trade with a little girl who has a bag of candy. The girl gladly agrees. But while the boy gets out his marbles, he realizes that he can't bear to part with some of them. Rather dishonestly, he takes three of his best marbles and hides them under his pillow. The boy and girl make the trade, and the girl never knows he has cheated her. But that night, while the girl lies fast asleep, the boy has no peace. He's wide awake pondering a question that nags him: "I wonder if she kept her best candy, too? "

Like the little boy, many of us walk through life plagued by the question "Has God given me His best?" But the question we must answer first is "Am I giving God my best?"
Have you given God everything, or do you still hold your favorite marbles on your hand?


He is worth giving everything up for.
I'm trying to get to the point that I don't feel like I have to keep those marbles anymore.
It's a working process.