Sunflower Faith

My Daily Bible Reading

Today’s Life Journal Reading is from:

1 Peter 1,2,3,4,5

Scripture

¹⁷ And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear; ¹⁸ knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, ¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. ²⁰ He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you ²¹ who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. (1 Peter 1:17-21, New King James Version)

Observation:

This past year has been a year where our Heavenly Father has called on and convicted and begun a work of refinement that He has laid heavily on my  heart and that I accepted with just submission, praise and gratitude.

It’s funny how something as simple as just reading your bible, is a difficult task to do in today’s world, when we have so much going on and keeping ourselves, so busy, that we overlook, something as life giving and vital as working on our always growing and developing relationship with our Heavenly Father.

I am a huge advocate of that, because as I really begin to dig into reading His word, taking the challenge at church to read our bible, every day and finding the time to read our bible, I began to realize, that there was so much more in my growth that I needed to do that I welcome with open arms and a desire to submit myself to His will be done, not mine.

Using the life journal method and the S.O.A.P. help, for me, develop a discipline to read His word every day that it’s reach the point, I honestly feel incomplete if I don’t spend time reading His word so I incorporate that with our homeschool routine.

Biggest reason, is it helps the kids learn by example and not by words, how to pursue that active and living relationship with our Heavenly Father and if we don’t do that ourselves, how can we expect them to.

Application:

I’m learning to really look at my life and decide, how important is this over this and that over that. I am also learning that just because I volunteer at church, go to bible study, it’s not really “having a relationship”, but for me, it just felt more like doing everything, but going directly to Him and learning from Him, and growing in and through Him.

I started to say “no” to many activities and began to carve more time for Him and what I discovered, what a deeper conviction and desire in my heart to really follow Him, to learn from Him and that nothing in the world can truly replace or justify having that one on one relationship with our Heavenly Father and reading His Word.

Now…I read His word, before I read everything and it helps set that mental mindpath and that’s not to say, I still don’t slip and make mistakes.

I’m still human but I also learn not to use my mistakes as excuses but as growing markers in my life and to learn from them and strive not to repeat them.

My love and worship with our Heavenly Father is growing and maybe not rapidly, but that’s okay, it’s growing and I know that He is and always have been and will be more my center and focus of my life.

There is nothing on this earth that can replace Him and there is nothing on this earth He craves more than just to have that personal relationship, with you, with me, with everyone.

Prayer:

****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.

Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2009All Rights Reserved