Being Challenged with things that are necessary

We have started a new quarter for our SS small groups, Abiding In Christ.  The first week was a blessing.  The second week hit me in the heart.  This next week looks to be more of the same!  As we study throughout the week, God brings to mind many of the verses in my daily activities.  In addition to these studies, we, ADULTS, have been challenged to memorize Scripture and allow ourselves to be held accountable.  The last time I witnessed adults being challenged to memorize Scripture...which is a command of God...I found out exactly what they thought of the authority of God in their life...and it wasn't pretty...and probably still isn't.  It astounds me!  Adult Christians...Christ followers...arguing with God's Words and dragging others down the path of unbiblical thinking... seemingly without care or thought for their spiritual welfare.  After much reading and study...memorizing God's Word and hiding it in your heart is mentioned in both the Old and New Testaments.  I guess that is the recent argument for not doing (or doing) the things we do these days.  How many people are we being stumbling blocks to on our path of life?   
I imagine the Lord sitting on His throne just shaking His head.
I know the good that has come from memorizing and meditating on God's Word these last couple weeks again.  It takes discipline to sit down and work on committing these verses to memory.  We expect our children to do it.  We ought to expect the same of ourselves.  Age doesn't give you a free pass on responsibility and accountability!  We can remember dates and statistics of ball teams and players, dates in history, the name of the person and deeds that were done against us, the sale price on that item in the store...
It has to do with our priorities and our desires.  It has to do with where we are "abiding" during the week.   Where is your permanent place of dwelling? This isn't an invitation for just a visit.
John 15:1-4
"I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.  Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away:  and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.  Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.  Abide in me, and I in you.  As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine;  no more can ye, except ye abide in me."
Just because I have reached adulthood, doesn't mean that I am done learning and growing.  I am to be abiding...planted, flourishing, bearing fruit that remains.  From what I read and study, God is going to expect more from me as I age...because I know more...and I influence more people.  There are some necessary things in this Christian life...memorizing Scripture is one of them!