Ecclesiastes 1:9 English Standard Version (ESV) What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

We can all agree that new discoveries are being made every day. Advances in medicine have closed in on cures for diseases that once killed many people. Technologies allow us to examine in greater detail sub particles and the outmost reaches of our galaxy. Yet this comment by King Solomon is as true today as it was in his day.

How can that be? Because it is only new to us. God has seen it all and already knows what is to come. We only want to acknowledge truths we know, evidence of things that can be examined and explained.

Repetition is required for us to be able to hold firm in our memory those things we hold to be true or near and dear to us. We have offsite memory storage facilities because our minds cannot hold the vast knowledge available to us. We use search engines to recover data in storage. It seems there are more and more “clouds” appearing in this information technology era.

There is however a need for us to hold important information that we use every day. Those things we place within the memory circuits of our minds. We need them to be accessible on demand, without delay with a certainty appropriate to the importance of the information.

Isaiah 32:6 English Standard Version (ESV) For the fool speaks folly, and his heart is busy with iniquity,
to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the Lord, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.

How do we guard our minds against this danger?

Place the truth within easy reach. We place things in memory by repetition so that when needed the truth is available at that very moment. Do not stop reading His Word.