Well, hello everyone! Sorry I haven’t been as consistent on writing as I wanted to be! I’ll try to work on it, even if it might end up being kind of short.
Well, today, I want to say something about that thing that I started at the beginning of the year, reading through the Bible in a year. I have again become inconsistent in going through it. But I mean to remedy that, through God’s strength. (And that little addition to that sentence, “through God’s strength”, I think it absolutely necessary. I have been finding that I cannot do anything without my God! He is my strength and He makes me braver than the bravest of beasts, and mightier than I had ever thought possible!) I mentioned at the beginning of the year that I was going through the Bible by means of a podcast called the Daily Audio Bible, or their simplified version of DAB. I have LOVED it so far! I don’t always agree with what the reader says, but I think he has grown a great deal, having read through the Bible I think it was eight years. I mean, what’s wrong with your philosophy will most likely get fixed by reading through God’s Word. I know I’ve learned some things that I didn’t know just by what I’ve gone through already, even though I have only gone through books that I’ve already gone through. The reader, Brian Hardin, sometimes talks about the reading afterwards, and then finishes it all off with a prayer.
And the prayer has been the most amazing part. God has talked to me through His Word, but He I’m getting so much out of just talking to Him. I’m more patient during the day, I talk to Him more throughout the day and I am able to deal with a lot more hardship that each day brings. I just have to realize that, the day I don’t listen to God’s Word and I don’t have a regulated praying time, I am more irritable, less wise, and I almost want to avoid God’s company.
Readers, I would strongly encourage you to make a specific time to read the Bible, and to pray. I’ve said this before, but I don’t mind saying it again. You need it. God wants it. And in the end, you wont want to stop doing it. It seems so obvious that it doesn’t need to be taken into consideration, but it does. God always speaks through His Word, and even if it was made ages and ages ago, it isn’t insignificant today. He says things in it that are surprisingly applicable to what is happening around us today. And even those things that seems like they don’t apply to us, like the stuff in the Old Testament—they need to be read. They do apply! Just let the Lord show you how to apply them, and you wont stop being amazed!
Well, I’ve got to go! But please readers, thinking about picking up that old Bible that’s sitting on your shelf, and read it, study it, and listen to God’s wisdom! And please think about getting on your knees—or even just sitting down for a moment—and praying to the God who listens. He is there, and He loves you, no matter how much you might have neglected Him!
Shalom
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