Daily bible reading and meditation3/27/2023 ![]() ![]() How can I apply these truths to my own life?Īsking questions is one of the best ways of studying and meditating. What is God trying to tell me, or teach me in this chapter? What is God trying to say in this chapter? ![]() While reading through these concept-chapters you should take time to meditate on the topic. For instance, there are 5 days in a row in November which you will read certain key chapters on Grace. You will have also (in November and December) taken a more meditating approach to the Bible to think through certain concepts by reading about that topic within one chapter of the Bible. After following through on this Schedule, you will have read the Old Testament one time, and the New Testament 4 times. This is one schematic which may help you follow through reading the Bible in a year. This is a schedule for reading 6 chapters a day: 3 from the Old Testament and 3 from the New Testament. Many of the Puritans read 10-15 chapters a day (they had the time–or rather, they made the time.) The calendar here is not a schedule to read 15 chapters a day, although we should immerse ourselves in the Word of God as much as possible. We need to have a plan, a strategy, which aids us to endeavor through each day with a structured and defined reading agenda. ![]() As fallen humans, we are prone to this, even among the best Christians. Little by little prayer and bible reading/meditation are put off and other “more important” things are taken up to busy the mind, or fill up a given day. Spiritual declension and backsliding are the result of neglecting to feed the soul. But what of the soul? Does your soul eat and breathe? Your soul is in dire need of daily food and breath, without which, it will shrivel up and die. Eat to live? Do you breathe to live? If you do, then you are accomplishing what the human body requires for life. ![]()
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