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read through the Bible in a year.
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read through the Bible in a year.
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For the first time in my life, I didn't just read my Bible, I R.E.A.D. my Bible. I have come to the conclusion that I would like to be able to spend all day every day reading and studying my Bible. I have always known that the Bible is the LIVING Word of God, that it is a LAMP to my feet and a LIGHT to my path, but this year, in reading my Bible, I experienced the LIVING Word of God rather than just read it. And I am changed for it. God is doing a work in me and I hope and pray that I stay true to Him.
Hebrews 4:12, New Living Translation (NLT)
12 For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.
New Living Translation (NLT)
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
I did it. This isn't the first time in my life I've read my Bible through in a year, but it is the first time I've done it in several years. I tried last year, 2013, but when we went to Disney, I stopped and didn't pick it back up for some odd reason. It is NOT easy keeping up with something like reading my Bible every single day for 365 days in a row especially considering how busy I am at various times throughout the year (mainly the beginning, middle, and ends of any given semester). Every year, I say I am going to read my Bible through and almost every year for the past seven or eight years, I just haven't made it beyond the first few months. I am proud of myself for completing this goal this year.
Did I learn anything new from this reading? Because the Bible is the living, breathing Word of God, of course I did. I can't put into words exactly what, but what I do know is that rather than ending
the year thankful that it is over and afraid for the future, I am ending 2014 full of the Joy of the Lord and excited to see what miracles God is going to finish and do throughout 2015.
I loved reading through my Bible as I focused on JOY. I marked every single verse in the Bible with the word JOY in it as I read each day. I found myself marking verses on JOY more days than not. As I have studied JOY throughout the past year and as I have read my Bible through, I have found the true JOY of the Lord and that He truly has poured out His oil of JOY on me [more than anyone else].
I read the New Living Translation of the Bible on my digital reader.*
