Challenge 1: Memorize ‘When I Survey’

The first challenge is to memorize all four stanzas of the classic hymn ‘When I Survey’ by Isaac Watts. Why should you do this? The answer is to light your hearts on fire. Only the Holy Spirit can ignite a blazing love of Jesus. However, what we can do is stack kindling on the grate, put newspaper beneath, and fervently ask the Holy Spirit to strike a match. ‘When I Survey’ is what people in the Deep South call fat pine. The hymn is filled with flammable sap that readily ignites. Memorize this hymn, meditate on it, and pray through it. See if the Spirit doesn’t use these stanzas to stoke the embers of your heart into a bonfire of devotion.