An older lady once told me there was no use
her trying to memorise Scripture because her memory was “like a sieve” &
she did not retain anything she tried to memorise!
The Lord gave me an answer
for her … I asked if she did any baking,
and she said she did. I asked if she washed her flour sieve after using it. She
said she always washed it under running water. I asked her what the use was of
putting it under running water since the sieve did not retain the water! She looked
at me & smiled, and said “Because the water washes it clean!”
She realised
where I was going and said, “Oh I see … even if I don’t remember too much of
the verses, the process of letting the Scripture go through my thoughts cleans
my mind of dirt!”
She actually went on to memorize quite a bit of Scripture!