This is a commentary by a good friend of mine, Bryce Zeigle, that was originally written and published in September of 2009.  Bryce has spent the latest years of his life in central Wisconsin and is now attending Wheaton College, Illinois for his second consecutive year.  The grammar and format of the article has been revised, and now posted here, in its entirety, as a contribution to this blog with his expressed permission.

"But most people, instead of acting, take refuge in theorizing: they imagine that they are philosophers and that philosophy will make them virtuous; in fact, they behave like people who listen attentively to their doctors but never do anything that their doctors tell them. But a healthy state of the soul will no more be produced by this kind of philosophizing than a healthy state of the body by this kind of medical treatment." -Aristotle

1) Memorizing scripture makes meditation of scripture possible when you are not actively engaged in reading the Bible.  In other words, memorizing scripture allows us to constantly be thinking of scripture, God's written will.  By doing so, we can much more actively incorporate it into our daily lives.