Doberman Pinscher Vs. Yellow Lab

Recently it has come to my attention, through my quiet time that I've been more concerned with fleshly desires, and how best to please me, then on strengthening my spirit and walk with Christ. This has concerned me, especially after watching a recent bible study done by my Pastor (Pastor Bob Coy of Fort Lauderdale Florida) where he gave an analogy of a man holding two dogs. One dog is a Doberman Pinscher and the other is a Yellow Lab. He said imagine if the man only fed the Doberman and neglected the Yellow lab, which of the two dogs would have a stronger pull, or be a greater influence to the direction the man goes. The answer is obvious; the Doberman. However if you feed the lab and neglect to care for the Doberman, the lab would be the stronger influence to the man then the Doberman. The Yellow lab is obviously your spirit and the Doberman your flesh. I don't want to keep feeding the Doberman (Fleshly desires) and leave my Yellow lab (My spirit) to starve Therefore I've decided I will start putting more of an emphasis on building up my spirit, and what better way to do that then to study and meditate on God's Word?
The portion of scripture I decided to begin my study in is Psalm 139. A while back we had gone through and memorized this chapter as a family, but I hadn't really memorized it, I had only remembered the words (And in truth, I didn't even remember the words for that long) and it was that experience of my version of "memorizing", and several other experiences that discouraged me from even trying it again. Why did my version of memorizing fail? Because I was putting my emphasis on memorizing all of the words, as was previously stated, instead of actually acknowledging the meaning and meditating on that. I read somewhere recently that the people who cried out "Crucify him!" to Pilate had memorized large portions of scripture! And why was it that the amounts of scripture they memorized didn't affect their spiritual judgment? Because they knew Scripture with their minds but it never got to their hearts. Jesus challenged the Pharisees who had this same problem in John 5:39 "Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me." I also read that David did not say, "Thy word have I memorized in my mind," but rather "Thy word have I hid in mine heart that I might not sin against thee."
I also decided to start blogging about my experience in this new process I’m taking. Not to in any way use this as a method of boasting, but rather a way to keep me accountable and motivated to do this, despite the fact that I don’t have anyone who actually is going to read this.
So here go my first steps to feeding my spirit and denying my flesh *gulp* I don’t expect this to be easy, but I’ve got this promise to keep my motivated.

“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Philippians 4:13