My Daily Bible Reading
Today’s Life Journal Reading is from:
2 Peter 1,2,3; John 1
Scripture:
5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, 7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.
(2 Peter 1:5-9, New King James Version)
Observation:
The passage alone speaks volumes….want to know how to grow and mature as a follower of Christ? A post it note of this verse serves as a great reminder,but then again, isn’t there a lot of great passages from the Bible, from His word, that we can keep close to heart to remind us?
Reading it, it reads like a ladder, do one thing and on another, build another and from that another and from that is a tumbling effect that happens throughout our lives and our walk.
My words seem so inadequate to share the gentle reminder and love that comes from this passage….if we wish to grow deeper and more mature in our walk..wow…this is a good start.
Application:
Remember what it took to start walking? I don’t personally, lol, but it is a remind that there is a step that leads to another step that leads to another, and this is a reminder that everything has a process.
We would like to get from point A to point C in a hurry, but we have to remember that this is not our time, it’s His and everything has a step and a process and the trick is, to persevere through those processes.
For me, it’s a reminder that we have weaknesses, but they are not to be excuses (and I’m not saying I’m not guilty of that myself), but we do have the free-will to choose, for ourselves, to follow and learn from our Heavenly Father or not.
No one else can do that or do that for us. We could go to church all we want, but it doesn’t make us a mechanic (referencing just because we go to a garage….lol).
It’s up to us,you, me, everyone,to lay claim to His word, to open it, to read it, to keep it close to heart and walk in His steps and listen to Him.
No one can do that other than what we allow it and when we open our hearts, humble our souls and say, “Lord, I am here in Thy will not mine, and what do I have to learn from You”, oh the blessings that He lays on our hearts and souls.
Prayer:
Lord, Thank You Father for Your word and your lessons and though there are times that are hard, though there are times that are good, through good and bad, Lord, lead me, Lord, humble me, give me strength for when I am weak and teach me,Heavenly Father to be Your humble servant.
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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