Okay, so it's not the most exciting title but I think it captures what is going on with my reading as well as a few of you I talked to. I so appreciate a few of you touching base with me in person if even just to say "still going." That is great!!
With the busyness of this past week I experienced something that is common when implementing the habit of reading Scripture. It has the potential to become something I push through instead of pausing to reflect. Reading scripture is not like other reading. It has to be approached prayerfully with time to reflect. Now reflection can and should take place throughout the day following your reading but it should also take place during the reading. If something grabs your attention, don't feel the pressure to finish so much that you don't pause to consider what God is telling you.
May God bless you this week as you seek to truly listen. AND may I just carve out the time to pause.
Let me hear from you on how things are going. Has anything grabbed you? Any Scriptures jumping off the page as if God wrote them just for you? Let's hear it.
doug
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Thanks for the encouragement! I got off a few days and read them quickly this morning, without pause for what the Lord might speak to me. I am still going, though and plan to take more time to listen to God's "still small voice".
I'm reading things I haven't read in ages, about Jacob, Esau, and Rachel, etc. I'm doing the Old T in a year, though, since I did the New T in 2004. Also reading the Proverbs and Psalms that are scheduled along with in my One Year Bible. So far, so good. Well, pretty good. Some days I "just get 'er done."
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