Read through the whole Bible in 2014

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.*