I read recently on Twitter that a CrossPointer had just completed reading the book of Genesis for the first time in her life. I, along with many other CrossPointers, celebrated her recent accomplishment. That is a major achievement, indeed.
It is usually about this time in a new year many people quit reading their Bibles. They give up. They get a day or two behind, and they throw in the towel.
Today is not the day to quit. Today is the day to catch up. Today is the day to get back on track. Today is the day to get ahead.
A Dr. Congdon once approached Bible teacher R. A. Torrey, complaining he could get nothing out of his Bible study.
“Please tell me how to study it so that it will mean something to me.”
“Read it,” replied Dr. Torrey.
“I do read it.”
“Read it some more.”
“How?”
“Take some book and read it twelve times a day for a month.”
Torrey recommended Dr. Congdon read Second Peter. Dr. Congdon later said,
“My wife and I read 2 Peter three or four times in the morning, two or three times at noon, and two or three times at dinner. Soon I was talking 2 Peter to everyone I met. It seemed as though the stars in the heavens were singing the story of 2 Peter. I read 2 Peter on my knees, marking passages. Teardrops mingled with the crayon colors, and I said to my wife,
“See how I have ruined this part of my Bible.”
“Yes,” she said, “but as the pages have been getting black, your life has been getting white.”
Great post! This is the way to read the Bible. Not necessarily for speed to check off a book (That is beneficial in many ways), but to understand. To know God. To encounter Him. To have His Truth pushed deep into the soul. Read Scripture… re-read it… then read it again, and again, and again, and…..