Some helpful tips when reading the Bible
- Don’t expect to always know the answers
- Expect to sometimes be confused
- Don’t always expect an emotional response or warm fuzzies
- Keep pressing on, day by day
- Let the Word wash over you
- You may not immediately recognize day to day changes
- As the years go by, however, you will be changed!
- If you miss a meal or two you don’t give up on eating; likewise if you miss days, weeks, or even months of Bible reading do not give up–just confess your weakness, ask for the Spirit’s help, and pick it back up
Geoffrey Thomas: “So go on reading the Bible until you can read no longer and then you will not need the Bible anymore because when your eyes close for the last time in death, and never again read the Word of God in Scripture, you will open them to the Word of God in the flesh, that same Jesus of the Bible, whom you have known for so long, standing before you to take you forever to his eternal home.”