Where are you in your reading? Several of you have told me that you feel really, really behind. Are you farther along in your reading than you were June 6? Then you are reading more Scripture than most of the world!
Today. Open your Bible to the place you last read. Read one chapter. Just one. Good job!
One verse at a time. One chapter at a time. You will, yes you will, read the Bible through!
Meanwhile, keep coming to class. Keep reading at least one chapter each day. Keep asking God to help you find the time and the desire to read the Bible through. If reading isn't working, try listening.
Is it God's will for you to read the Bible? Of course it is! We'll all be praying for each other (we already are, you know, each time St. Mary's gathers for worship).
What God has started in your heart, God will bring to fruition. Thanks be to God.
Thanks for the encouragement, Beth! This is hard but not impossible. One of the things that has come to me is that the Israelites wanted an earthly king, an earthly leader, and that it made it harder for them to focus on living their lives for God. I think that is true today as well - that when we look for a public someone to lead us in a personal way, we come up short. God is our personal leader - always.
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome!!! I read one page at a time. Sometimes it's two pages in day, sometimes it's 22 pages. I'm still in Exodus but we have Commandments!! Little by little I am "catching up".
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