Oh look! A post from me! It has been a while folks. I’m very sorry. My life has been… wait for it….. busy. As a mother of 4 kids, an instructor and Masters student my time gets eaten up rather quick. While I was working on my Summer course I was thinking about how I wanted to get back to reading my Bible and finish my plan of getting through the Bible front to back in a year. Thoughts of getting back to reading my Bible always came when I was procrastinating on my course work and since I paid tuition for my course and I felt guilty about not doing my assigned readings, the course work would win and Bible reading would wait.
I am now onto my Fall course (3 more courses after this one and I will complete my Masters degree) and I realized that December is coming and I again am faced with course readings versus Bible readings. I reached a deadline for an assignment and found myself feeling behind and stressed. I wasn’t behind in my readings but I felt out of control… and I like being in control or at least feeling like things are being controlled for me. After my assignment was in I made the decision that I was going to make time for working on reading through the Bible in a year.
I had left my readings last time somewhere in Ezekiel but decided to pull my bookmark out and start at the beginning of the book. I didn’t see the point in starting where I had left off and then read everything out of context because I didn’t remember what happened before. I have since chewed through Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea and Joel. Amos is next on my hit list.
I have read all of the New Testament many times in the past so once I get through the minor prophets I can say that I have read through the entire Bible. If I can get through the minor prophets and the New Testament before January 1st I can say I’ve read the Bible in a year. I don’t want to rush myself as I want to be able to learn as I go along but I hope that God will help me reach this goal. It is doable and as long as I continue with the habit that I’ve had this past week or so of reading every night, I should be able to accomplish it.
And as a side note, I find that now I have more time since I have been taking time to read my Bible. How does that work? I think I am less wasteful with my time now although there is still plenty of room for improvement.
