Forty-Day Immersion: Day 10

The world is unprincipled. It's dog-eat-dog out there! The world doesn't fight fair. But we don't live or fight our battles that way - never have and never will. 10:4 The tools of our trade aren't for marketing or manipulation, but they are for demolishing that entire massively corrupt culture. 10:5 We use our powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God, fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ. 10:6 Our tools are ready at hand for clearing the ground of every obstruction and building lives of obedience into maturity. 2 Corinthians 10:3-6, The Message

Day 10

Tools that are ready at hand are there to be accessed and used quickly. Think keys, think Swiss Army knife; think cell phone with speed dial numbers for quick connection.

Think memory verses.

Memory verses may be one of the most important tools we carry around with us – both in our hearts and in our review pack.

Time in line, time waiting for an appointment, time in general; some of it could be used for accomplishing every action in the list of God tools from our focal passage.

The memory verses that are the most effective are the ones that we own to the extent that they own us. The strength of the promise or premise gets drilled down into the core of who we are and what we are about as we pray them back to God and seek out fresh applications.

Maybe there is a reason that many of us find that memory verses are the most neglected aspect of our spiritual discipline - they make us too dangerous to our old nature.

Live dangerously. Make sure that you leave the house strapped, locked and loaded – with your verse pack!