I Completed The Bible Again.. Now What?
I completed the Bible for the 3rd time this summer
I four chaptered my way to the very end and have now started it over again.
I feels good all while understanding I have barely touched the surface of spiritual growth. Though I am ways away from where I was headed (spiritually) a couple of years ago when my bible was collecting dust, I can’t help but think about all the time spent not studying and praying consistently. Considering that, I am left with the thoughts of “I have a long way to go.”
Why do I keep starting the bible over?
I’ve gotten to the point where I understand that growth is continuous and the “wiser” I get I learn that there’s so much I don’t know. So much that I only understand on a low level. That alone makes me keep reading. There’s this thing with literature that when you reread texts you’re able to catch things you may have not picked up on the first time, as well as gaining a deeper understanding as time passes. And if the goal is to become the best I can be, I’ll never stop reading.
Some days my four chapters is the only thing that’s holding me together
Remember the woman that touched the hem of Christ’s garment?
Yeah, it be like that.
The word is spiritual, don’t doubt its power (even when you don’t feel it). There are days where it feels like my four chapters and morning/noon/evening prayer are the only thing that’s pushing me through the day. Without this daily routine, honestly.. whew. It’s a spiritual war, and it be rough out here.
Anyways,
I want to leave y’all with this — don’t ever let anyone make you feel “weird” for wanting to read the bible, for changing, for figuring it out.
Keep going, keep growing.
Revelation 1:3
“Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.”
Romans 10:17
“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
1 Timothy 1:9-14
“Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;
Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.”