"For not all have faith. But the Lord is faithful." -- 2 Thessalonians 3:2&3
Honestly, I am so ashamed of how much I read the Bible. January of my senior year, I committed to reading the one year bible plan. It was AWESOME. I loved it! Things would connect; there's a power to being immersed in the word. It was always a struggle for me, since I am a painfully slow reader, but at that time there was a little wiggle room in my schedule.
When I went to Auburn in the fall, I tried desperately to keep it up. Half of the reason for this is that I loved it, but the other half was in order to prove something. That I indeed could read through the bible in twelve months, that I was that ultra-Christian who crossed her "t"'s and dotted her "il's, that I had read the same as my little brother had (there is a wildly competitive side to me). Because the heavy reading was one more stress on my first semester and I was not entirely rightly motivated, I chose to keep following the plan, just at my own pace.
Again, to be honest, my reading has slacked off since then. Sometimes I wish I had just pushed through, since a goal like that is so beneficial to me. Recently, I dropped the Old Testament readings in order to read through the whole New Testament. Going back and forth following the one-year plan, I was forgetting what was going on -- totally not the purpose!
Anyways, I like what I am doing now, if only I could stay consistent and read it every day. I don't know why I felt it necessary to explain my entire method when all I wanted to do was share something I had stumbled upon today. Maybe it was to make sure nobody was deceived into thinking I'm saintly or something. Ha! Far from it. But I plan to make a habit of this, if for no other reason then to be able to look back and find what scripture had been on my heart at the time.
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