My Daily Bible Reading

Today’s Life Journal Reading is from:

Romans 9,10,11,12

Scripture

 ¹ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. ² And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. (Romans 12:1-2, New King James Version)

Observation:

What I was gleaned is that, as followers of Christ, we do not belong to ourselves, it’s not about us, it’s about Him and we belong to Him. When we rent a home, it’s not our home, it belongs to someone else and we are just temporary residents and it’s our personal responsibility to take care of our home and what we do to it and what we fill it with and not that of the landlord.

As followers of Christ, it’s not about being “Sunday Christians” to present an appearance, but everyday of our lives that we are “In Service to Him” that we need to present ourselves; There are times when we don’t know people are watching us, but they are and they see us when we think the guard is down.

Application:

Read the Manual-God’s word-The Bible,makes for a great start; There is no excuse other than ourselves for not reading His word. We develop grooming habits to present ourselves to the world and so the same, when we stop living for the world, and start living for Him, part of our sacrifice is our willingness to admit, we are no longer part of a broken and sin-filled world, but we belong to Him and we give up our old ways and give ourselves to Him.

Including develop active choices of what we read, how we speak, what we do in a way that is pleasing and willingly of our own hearts for Him and not attempts to be legalistic either.

Prayer:

Heavenly Father, Thank You Father for the sacrifice You made for us and I pray and hope we can show our willingness to follow You with our sacrifice of giving up a sinfilled and broken world and striving for something better and pure in our lives that it bear testimony to You.

Be it fasting, reading Your word or activily pursuing You, I pray and hope that we can always be of “In Service to You”,Lord.

Amen.

****Purpose of this post****

Gentle Readers, There are days that I will read a verse or passage and just feel pulled to share here, but there are days when I will read something and just feel, I need to spend the day, in personal contemplation of what is being convey and may just post via Twitter, what passages I have read that day and post nothing on here.

That is what bible reading is about; It’s not about having to write something down everyday; There maybe days when you are reading say, Numbers and it’s just lineages, but other days, you may find yourself dealing with a “powerhouse verse” of the moment and have to just go “WOW” and seek God in personal time and prayer to understand what He is sharing.

I will try to post daily, but particularly on weekends, if I’m sick or I’m just completely in awe of what I’m reading or maybe I am trying to understand what I am reading, I may not post here, I may just write in my Life Journal (hardcopy), because I will find myself having to seek His Word and/or the Commentary and just seek in prayer to understand what our Father in Heaven is seeking to reveal.

Either way.

Reading His Word, is about getting to know Him better and developing your Christian growth and maturity. Do what is right and good for you.

If you do use the Life Journal and participate in the daily readings, I would like to hear from you and your perspective on each day’s reading, when I do have a post up, or feel free to comment on a previous “Daily Bible Reading post” or send me a quick email.

Please feel free to join in the linky that I post below, so others too, who uses the Life Journal/or SOAP method to read the bible can participate.

Don’t feel obligate to have to blog about each passage to be read, but if anything, feel free to share those passages that have the most impact on you that day.

There maybe some days that you may read your daily reading and find nothing to jot down in your journal or on your blog and that’s okay, but there maybe other days, that you will find yourself inspire.

This is about you being encouraged to have a personal relationship with our Heavenly Father, and spending each day with Him, You and Him.

It is my prayer and hope that this will be an encouragement to establish a personal daily reading as well.

To find out more about using the S.O.A.P. method, here’s a link to an ehow article and here’s the link to the Life Journal to find out more what it is, and how you can use it for your own daily bible readings. If you don’t want to order the journal or if it’s not available through your local church, another method is simply, buy a journal or notebook or even blog about your life journal readings.

Disclaimer: I am not personally affiliated with the church that the link goes to, but merely share it as a resource of what the Life Journal is, how to order it.

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