I breezed through Ephesians 1:1-10.

This past week has been a real struggle with 1:11-14.

Suddenly the memorization reminds me of high school and college. Had it not been for the doctrinal section of my Bible Doctrines tests, I would have flunked that course. But I always had perfect scores on the doctrines themselves, and very good paraphrases on all the verses. But the Opportunity Place required verbatim KJV. It didn't even help when I tried to make my paraphrases at least sound archaic, which I was pretty good at doing.

It's not a chore. I look forward to it everyday. And I really enjoying meditating on the verse all day long.

The problem's in my noggin. I seem to need a prompt at every phrase, then I can quote the phrase with minimal effort. My wife, living up to her blog name, suggested I create symbols for each phrase and memorize the symbols.

I see that God is not only teaching me Scripture through this, but even more to depend on Him.