Many moons ago, when I was in college, I had the opportunity to attend a Desiring God National Conference in Minneapolis, MN. Being a broke college student, I did it on a shoestring and was able to stay with someone who was attending The Bethlehem Institute, which later became Bethlehem College and Seminary.

The guy I stayed with had his shower lined with ziplock bags. Inside the ziplock bags, he wrote passages of Scripture on note cards, and the ziplock bags waterproofed them so that he could memorize scripture while he showered! He had a laminated copy of a chapter of Romans hung on the bathroom mirror. He had a cardholder taped to his steering wheel so that he could work on memorizing scripture at stop lights.

He also happened to be the kindest and most tender-hearted guy I have ever met.
I don't think those two realities are accidental.

I am not like this guy, but I want to be more like him. And I think that I, or we, have a unique opportunity this coming year as we start walking through the book of Hebrews.

Personally, Hebrews is my favorite book of Scripture. In my opinion, no other book in the New Testament shows how the Old Testament points to Jesus as the book of Hebrews does. The author goes to great lengths to show that Christ is better than everything that has been pointing to him: angels, Moses, the high priests, the sacrifices offered, everything!

And over this next year, we have the opportunity to slowly, carefully, and thoughtfully consider these things as we gather together on Sundays. But instead of showing up and encountering the passage for the first time when we gather, what if we mulled it over in our minds the days prior? What if we let it tumble around in our mind so much that we committed it to memory? What if we did that for the next year and were able to memorize the entire book of Hebrews? How amazing would that be?

If you look through the schedule, there are a couple of weeks where this goal would be a stretch, but most weeks, we are only covering a handful of Scriptures. But what if we, with the Lord's aid, could do this? We would spend this next year considering how Jesus is better than everything else in the Scriptures. Letting that reality soak into our bones would hopefully, make me (and whoever else does this) a little more kinder, more tender-hearted, more like the Christ we consider by this time next year.

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