- My Daily Bible Reading
Today’s Life Journal Reading is from:
Philemon;Hebrews 1,2,3,4
Scripture
11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. 12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. (Hebrews 4:11-13, New King James Version)
Observation:
That funny little twing in our hearts when we do something we know against God’s word? That’s the Holy Spirit talking to our hearts and our conscious.
There is no such thing as being able to hide what we are doing. He doesn’t start and end at church on Sunday; If we truly have faith and believe that He is everywhere, knows everything, why in the walls of our homes, do we think that we can hide from Him like we can hide from the world?
It’s like Adam and Eve all over,hiding in the bushes, when they heard Him walking through the Garden of Eve. He knew they were there; He knew they were hiding.
He preferred that out of their own free will and conscious they came to Him rather than force them to come to Him.
It does get convicting when we read His word and funny, the things that tend to bother us the most are often things we try to tell ourselves, our justified ourselves that it’s okay to do.
Did we gossip today about someone with the intent to hurt or project our anger at them?
Did we steal?
Did we think…no one knows and act in a way that hurts our testimony but did it anyway, thinking no one sees?
His word is living.
His word is active.
No one can truly hide from our Heavenly Father and sometimes, its best to be honest with Him and ourselves, of our faults and our mistakes then to think that if we ignore them….they will just go away.
He offers us redemption and freedom…will we take it.
Application:
I want to be more than a Sunday Christian who goes to church and leaves it at the church door when I come home; I want to be more than someone who uses the bible for decoration or at church and on the rest of the days, never pick it up, read it or apply it to my walk with our Heavenly Father.
His words are not just words placed on paper, but it is food and sustance for our maturity as Christians and even picking and choosing it, doesn’t always give our spiritual growth, the sustance, it needs.
It’s a challenge to not be one thing and do another..It’s a challenge to apply His word, not legalistic or Pharisee, but as a living, growing relationship in all areas of our lives, and yes, it may hurt in some areas, but maybe those are areas of weakness, we must confront and allow Him to refine in us, in and through Him.
Prayer:
Heavenly Father, Thank You for this beautiful morning; It is cold, but the blessing is that we turn down the heat and turn on the fireplace and use that time as family time, to read Your word, to have fellowship as a family and to enjoy the changing of the seasons, that You created and are a reminder of Your creation.
I pray and hope that I apply Your word in my life and allow You to humble me, refine what is weak and imperfect to Your Glory, not mine and to be a testatment to You, for when I don’t know that my life can and will either reflect You or not reflect You and it is always with prayer, it reflects You.
****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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