Scripture Memory

It's a new month and time for my third scripture memory verse.  I've committed myself to the 2011 Siesta Scripture Memory Team.  It's a challenge from Beth Moore to memorize two verses a month.  Our church has a monthly memory verse so I usually use it as one of my verses each month.  This month, however it was a verse I already knew:

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this word, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.  Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.  ~Romans 12:2 NIV

I was searching other translations for something I could memorize so I'm on the same page as everyone else, just learning it anew.  I have become a fan of Your Version app for my iPhone.  It makes flipping from one version to another effortless.  I'm sure people at church think I'm texting or playing games on my phone, or being otherwise irreverent during the worship service and Sunday School, but I'm just reading along and digging a little deeper.

I decided on The Message's translation for Romans 12:2.  I think I may have gotten in a little over my head, BUT the verse speaks to me so much more in this translation:

Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. ~Romans 12:2

• Do I fit in without even thinking?  
• Is my attention fixed on God?  
• He promises a change on the inside, but I also think it implies an outward change will be a result too.  
• Do I recognize what He wants and respond quickly.  How often am I obedient immediately?  I drag my feet, whine, complain, beg.  Then I obey.  I'm attempting to teach my boys not to act that way when I give an instruction?  Why can't I follow my on advice when it comes to God?  
• The world drags us down.  Ain't that the truth?  
• God brings out the best in me.  The Best!

I better get started on this verse.  It's a long one and I've wasted three days out of fifteen searching for what I want to memorize.