This is the Bible reading plan I'm doing right now. I like having Psalms and Proverbs every day. I likely will continue this one again next year.
I am a very firm believer in reading the Bible every day, as you can tell by my previous posts about reading the Bible in a year and tips on how to read the Bible in a year.
So its almost August. You’re wondering why I’m bringing this up. Its because you should be reading your Bible. Just start. Whoever you are, whenever you are reading this, wherever you are at in life, I can confidently say that God wants to speak to you daily through His Word and you will be blessed by reading daily. So let’s go:
Here’s how you can get started on your Bible-reading discipline. Its really easy!
Get yourself a Bible reading plan (I’m doing the One Year Bible, which I HIGHLY recommend). Print it up and stick it in your Bible. Or you can use an app like YouVersion, although I still recommend going paper because it is much easier to jump around and view the context compared to a tiny screen.
Ok, here’s the most important step: find today’s date on the Bible reading plan and JUST READ THE PASSAGES FOR THAT DAY! That’s it!
What if you miss a day? Oh well. Don’t try to catch up, just continue with the next day’s reading. What if you miss 6 months? Pick up your Bible and look up THAT day and just read THAT day. If you try to catch up, you never will. Just read the day. God wants to speak to you EVERY day. Even if you’re in 1 Chronicles or deep in the minor prophets, God has something to speak to you that day! It is amazing how relevant passages written almost 3000 years ago can be to your life today, if you allow God to speak through them.
Right now some of you are resisting because you don’t want to skip anything. Die to that desire friend. The beauty of this way of doing things is that it’ll help you make this a life-long discipline, so you’ll be sure to catch that passage in future years.
IF you are going to go back and “catch-up” in the reading (like if you’re in the middle of a narrative and are missing key context), then do it AFTER today’s reading. Again, it sounds counter-intuitive, but trust me. You want to make sure you get TODAY’S done first, else you’ll dig a deeper and deeper hole trying to “catch up” and will lose motivation.
May God bless you in your reading discipline and speak to you daily!