read the Bible from start to finish

Yea – done with Numbers. That was tedious. It took me a month to get through it – ha! I always found myself reading other things…even other books in the Bible…anything to put off reading Numbers. But, now I’m finally done. Yipppeee!

Looking forward to Deuteronomy though. I should be zipping right along thanks to my new “read the bible each morning” goal. ;)

I’m ashamed to admit that I checked Blockbuster to see if they had the New Testament on DVD. And they do – but a long wait. I don’t mean for that to take the place of actually reading, and I have the full Bible on my PDA with a daily breakdown but like many things, it’s being disciplined. I can name ten things I literally could have done instead of some of the things I chose today (well, not really today as I’ve been productive) but you know what I mean. Discipline, discipline, discipline.

On the other hand, when I began the 90 Day Challenge (http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/readingplans) online, it couldn’t be any easier than sitting in front of my pc, selecting the version I want to read in, and go. Many tweeted that they’d read several days in one sitting, and I’m not saying that’s bad, but I’m not trying to speed read the Bible. What would be the point of that? I even bought a program and have it installed with all the Study Notes, now that’s great. It’s not enough for me to read it, but to get understanding from it, so I’m reading both the notes which explain the context AND the Bible. I may not be the most disciplined, but I certainly attempt to take an educated approach.

I’ll keep this updated.

So, this is on my list again, and by Christmas I want this one completed.

I think I need to join a bible study :-) Going to church has helped but I feel like I’m getting the info in bits and pieces and nothing really makes sense to me. I need a plan to read it chronologically so that I can know the flow of how things went.

That was a tough one to get through…sheesh – lots of laws and rules…Glad I’m done with that one!

Done with Exodus. I’ve never read this book all the way through before and I have to say, I enjoyed it. On to Leviticus…

Done with the first book! I’ve never read Genesis in it’s entirety before so am quite proud of myself. Now on to Exodus…

I recently finished the book of Ecclesiastes a few days ago and I have to say it’s been the most depressing thus far, at first that is. The teacher is basically saying everything is useless. Evil people will die, good people will die, we will all go back to dust into the earth so everything is useless. But live and rely on God was really the message at the end, because yes everyone will die but what we do on this earth, how we treat each other how we follow the Lord is not useless because after this time on earth there is life with him.

My goodness a long book, sometimes I just skim a few pages at a time beings they are mostly prayers but i’m still working on it.

I just finished job starting on psalms. It really just amazes me actually I can’t even imagine everything Job went through and he never once denounced the Lord, there have been many times in my life that something bad has happened and I didn’t so much denouce the Lord, but I never bowed down in worship either, like Job did. Tho little by little that I read and build my relationship and find my faith the things that I would normally find bad in my life I don’t always see that way and have found that I thank the Lord for taking me in a different direction.

Im currently on chapter 8, just a few more and I’ll be done with this book. I found kings to be a lot of the same thing over and over and it just amazes me how the next king in line saw and heard what the Lord did when his father didn’t keep to the laws and yet they kept making the same mistakes over and over.