I began the new year by following the Robert Robert's reading plan via www.youversion.com. Each day I have been posting my reading on Twitter/Facebook. I have decided to stop that practice. Instead, I will be posting thoughts on my blog at www.jameseleary.com.
Last night I read chapter five of Primal by Mark Batterson. He offers some helpful thoughts on how to make devotional reading "primal", as he puts it, once again. In summary, we don't do devotional reading just to check of that we have done it, which I am afraid will happen if I continue to post my reading updates on Twitter. Instead, Mark observes that our reading of the Bible should improve our relationship with our Savior. Mark made the following observation about reading the Bible on page 74: "I was reading it for what God wanted to say through me instead of what God wanted to say to me." (His italics) Batterson also noted the following on page 84: "The goal of knowing the Bible is knowing God."
My goal as I read through the Bible this year is to know God. I don't want to say on December 31 that I have read through the Bible. Rather, I want to say I really got to know God in 2010. He spoke to my heart through the pages of His Word and my life has been changed.
~ Jim
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