Via RSS feed.October 23rd, 2009
They Call it a Discipline
There’s a reason why daily reading of the Bible is called a spiritual discipline – it is. There are times when you’re dead-tired at night and haven’t read the Bible yet, when you REALLY want to sleep instead of read, or when your children interrupt you four times in a row as you try to read your four pages for the day.
BUT – it’s not a hardship. That gentle reminder that a commitment to read the scriptures daily brings me each day is a blessing. I’ve consistently been in the WORD for over a month, and I’m loving it! I just read through the establishment of the Tabernacle.
I’m in Exodus 36 now, so I’m not covering new ground, but I am picking up some new insights. Maybe the NIV is helping, but I’ve loved sharing my new discoveries with my husband each day. Some will likely think I take God a bit too lightly, but man – does He ever have a dandy sense of humor! Maybe I’m just giddy but the account of Aaron’s ‘holy’ underwear just cracked me up!
To those of you who are joining me on this journey – how’s it going for you? What have you been learning lately?
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We’re reading through Isaiah in our American Bible Society program and 2 Chronicles with our Sonlight curriculum. Since we’re also studying ancient history, I have to admit it’s the first time I’ve ever really gotten the North/South thing with Israel. I think I always just thought in terms of the North being taken into captivity first and that being the difference. I didn’t realize that was all subsequen to civil war and that it was a division to begin with over whether they would worship God alone or other gods. We read the other day how all the Levites left the North and went south to Jerusalem because they really were kind of out of work up in the North where the king was just as interested in baal worship. I have no idea why I missed this all these years, but it’s fun to have some historical perspective.
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Very neat! We were just reading about that TONIGHT in a comic book Bible the kids have really been enjoying at bedtime! It’s going pretty fast, but hitting a lot of the main points – tomorrow night…Elijah!