Quest to Memorize The New Testament

Deuteronomy 6:5-7 5  You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6  And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7  You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.     My son will be 2 years old in two months time. We are doing our best to raise him with rich knowledge from God's word while teaching him secular knowledge, all with the help of our Lord and His spirit. We know how important hiding God's words in His little heart not just because it is a commandment on Deuteronomy 6:5-7 as quoted on the top of this post. Maybe now it is more of hiding in his memory more than his heart since he didn't fully understand all that he memorizes, but I believe in the future he will reap the benefits when his understanding grows.   ...

I am glad that I decided to be firm and use back ESV and not change the bible translation for memorization. I could see that I am back to track following my schedule, today I had finished memorizing John 10, though it is still in my temporary memory. The advantage that I was stirred which bible translation to use is that I discovered great insights from an NKJV based bible study "New Spirit Filled Life bible" given a brother who helped me to become Christian. Before, this book gather dust in the shelf but now it became helpful for me in studying the Word. As I am reviewing my old chapters, I cant help but be struck on John 6 the portions when Lord Jesus said "I am the bread of Life". This was the most difficult chapter and longest that I tried to commit to memory. I suppose to finish it by 3 weeks but it took me more than two months. Thanks be to God for giving me grace to continue pressing on this goal, I could not quote it perfectly yet but time wi...