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I love this kind of practical challenge. It’s far, far better than the ‘I don’t get it so I’ll just ignore it’ approach. But practical challenges need practical replies, and that puts the pressure on me to be just as practical in responding. I’ll start by giving you two options and then fill them in with some more details…
Trying to build daily bible reading into our schedules can be a challenge, but I can assure you that it will be well worth it. Most of us timewise don’t see a bible reading-shaped gap in our lives that is crying out to be filled. But while we scurry around to fulfil our packed timetables, perhaps we secretly wish there could be some stabilising and inspirational input regularly going into our lives…
Most people who read the bible don’t notice how full of poetry it is. They know that the Psalms are poetic, as psalms were written to be sung, but unless they have a bible where the typesetters have gone to the trouble of indenting whole sections, they may have missed the poetry in chapter after chapter of the prophetic books, to say nothing of Job, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs, and even parts of Genesis…
To be honest there are loads of different things I see when I read my Bible, and I am sure that everyone who regularly reads their Bible cover to cover would agree. The story constantly moves on and there are always fresh things to look into. So what are the three things I always see wherever I look in the Bible?
