theBIBLE

sure people who call themselves christians are familiar with it. even those who don’t affiliate with Christ know it. we may have verses we’ve memorized, know in our hearts and minds, hear at church or other gatherings. but where do I stand on reading it and really getting into it!?
I’ve fallen in love with the Bible, it’s words, comfort, hope, council and instruction. I enjoy finding new things and discovering God through it. but I question why I so often come back to my initial sentence; the Bible is often a hard book to come to.

I’m not a reader in general so in my free time, a book is one of the last things I’d choose to fill my time with.
–but wait, don’t I hunger for the Bible and want desperately to read and know it?–
There’s a disconnect here and I’ve been striving to find consistency in that for a while now.

I see others with their Bibles open, reading and learning.
Seeing this, I’m equally encouraged and discouraged-why can’t I do that too!

I’m finding, however, that slowing these things change when you choose to be adamant about it. The times I find I’m not doing something and choose to read it, the times I have to study it because someone asked me to lead a bible study, the times I just want to get God and search through its pages–the more I pick it up and do these things, the more I can see that consistency growing. It’s still a struggle and I need to convince myself to go there every time I do open the book. but every time I do, I get closer to my goal of being enthralled with the Bible and being able to come to it often-all the time-knowing it intimately and being hungry enough for it to seek it in reality.