When I was growing up in middle school I read the Bible fairly consistently. I usually read about three chapters a day, and by 8th grade I had already read the entire Bible through once. By my senior year in high school I had read through the Bible another few times. At that time I remember I read with this intense pursuit of always wanting to learn something new and find out something great. I really benefited from this time, but mixed in that desire I had this distorted perspective that in order to be spiritually mature I always had to learn something new. Certainly it is important to learn new things from the word of God, but a purpose just as important if not more important is to just simply remember – remember the word of the Lord. This is why the Lord instructed the Kings of the Old Testament to read the Scriptures daily and to remember what he had done for Israel by rescuing them from Egypt again, again, and again. Being spiritually mature is not always about learning new spiritual truths, it is primarily about remembering and meditating about the truths we already know. Just to remember that God loves us and that he is faithul are far more important then some of the tid bits in the Bible that we might spend more time studying. I know the Bible tells me to hunger for the word of God and to pant for it as a deer pants for the water, but I am beginning to realize more and more that if I am not daily reading the Scriptures and remembering what the Lord has done then I forgot who I am and what I am doing. Too many times I have had a moral falling and snapped out of it at the end of my sin saying what did I do, why did I say that? In that moment I had forgotten who I am in Christ, I had forgotten what the Lord has done for me. In order to be a fruitful Christian I have learned more and more not to listen to a sermon thinking I have already heard that before, but to listen to it with humility and childlike faith longing for the word of God that makes me whole. I realize that I must hunger for the word of God and read it, the same verses again and again in order that I don’t forgoet who I am and what the Lord has done and that is why we are called to remember the Word of the Lord.