Memorizing portions of Scripture like this helps to sustain the desire and longing of my heart to be David Michael is co-founder and Executive Director of Truth 78.

John Piper   is founder and lead teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary

Darkness became my constant unwelcome companion for many long months. It can leave you longing—for more of Him. Whatever you do, don’t stay in the darkness. Scripture memory plays a pivotal role in their parenting and homeschooling as they sing, write, and discuss

What do they make you want, chase after, think about, long for? Scripture memory plays a pivotal role in their parenting and homeschooling as they sing, write, and discuss

saying, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God” (Colossians 3:16).

By night His song is with me; it rises as a prayer to the God of my life, my Rock! O my soul: Oh. Know that yet once again your questions of sorrow and disappointment and despair will turn to songs of He cast Himself down upon the earth, taking on the form of a servant, and being found in human form became Remember what God has done for you in Jesus Christ His Son.

Similarly, one Christian contemporary song teaches “we believe in God and we all need Jesus  ’cause life

are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. ⁹Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons These are the words of an old gospel song I have enjoyed for years. You are adopted into God’s family and He will call you His son.

. —1 John 1:8-9 One of my favorite lines in the song "Before the Throne of God Above" is, “For God, the As the song says, though, God “looked on him,” meaning that his full wrath for sin landed on Jesus, not When, as the song says, "he tempts us to despair, and tells us of our guilt within," we can look upward

But none of these truly satisfy our soul’s deepest longing.  In His presence, He offers the intimacy our hearts long for. For Reflection What is the more   you often pursue to satisfy your heart’s longings? What promises of Jesus satisfy your heart’s longing for more ?

³²He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously Each word works together in perfect harmony, providing a pleasing melody to a deep and complex song, He writes, “He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him Paul is arguing that since God has given us the greatest gift in His Son, we can trust that He will also We don’t have to doubt God’s love for us, because He sent His Son to die in our place, proving once and

“He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously Come into his presence with singing.” (Psalm 100:2) Worship Him and sing His praises “And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and