First Read through Bible?
Q: Just finished reading through the whole Bible in 90 days. It is possible! We should encourage others to do it...it is vastly different from simply reading completely through individual books. I am starting to read it through again in chronological order this time.😃
A: I think I memorized the first part of Gen Ch1 before anything else 😂. I remember trying to read it a few times and it always ended there.
And you are right, we need to read it every day. It keeps us close to God, drives us to prayer, and helps us grow in faith, and guides us to right living. We def need it daily! 🙂
I was born again at 12, had no godly parents or role models around me 6 of 7 days a week, lived far from other people, and my only exposure to Christianity was my godly grandparents (Grandpa was a temp pastor b4 i was born at a small lil church, and then a decon at our church my whole life and till he passed). I was dumped at their place on the weekends, and while they didnt say much at home about Christianity, they lived godly. Grandma was my SS teacher for around 4 or 5 yrs old, and there was only 2 other kids my grade range who came occasionally to our church, so no youth group at all, ever. I did get a scholarship from grandpa or some church folk to go to a youth retreat 2x as a young teen though. (I met young people there but that was b4 social media. I had 2 snail mail pals for a short time tho.)
I sat in big church my whole life. I colored and tried not to fidget sitting between them (cuz grandpa had a thumb in shoulder technique to get you to wise up 😢). But loved sitting there with them every Sunday 🙂🤗.
But at 12 I decided there had to be a reason adults spent an hour listening to the preacher, (besides our lovely singing time). So I focused hard 😅, listened and heard the gospel. What grandma taught of the 10C in ss made sense, and I got saved. It happened to be on Resurrection Sunday 😀.
It wasnt until 8th grade grad that I got a Bible; they gifted me one 😊. But 😬 it was kjv. Sooo hard for a kid to read😫.
No one ever told me Christians are to read the Bible daily. After HS I didnt live at home anymore; my aunt took me in temporarily. But her town had no church and no transportation services at all. I ended up losing my pittily eatery hostess job to the mgr wife [they wanted extra income], and I had no options. I joined the military to survive, at recc of a new housemate who was in the Navy. I did get light job training there but mostly learned my job myself and on my own after BC. In BC there was not good chapel so I only went a few times. Also a BC unitmate had a bad situation, and we all learned you cant trust mil chaplains. There was no church, or transport off the island I was later stationed at for me to get to a church, but after a few yrs, eventually I lived off base a few months and found a church; short lived.
But... I got kjv dramatized on cassette and took 2 weeks off... I spent that whole time (except eating 😂) listening to and reading along thru the Bible 😍. Barely finished it b4 going back to work💪😁. I was 22 1/2 yrs old I think. I know I soaked it in, 😅 not sure how much I retained, but I knew some of it from SS classes for 17 years 😁. (*Our church had study guides that went thru the Bible OT & NT quarterly, so that was good. Plus whatever I learned from Sermons.)
I still had no idea we were supposed to read it daily😱😟. Nor how deep Scripture really is. After a foreign stationed assignment (with no church) i outprocessed, and found a church [went there and my home church while newlywed was deplolyed]. Still no one told me I was supposed to read it daily.
It wasnt until I was 26 and settled where I was going to live [both us out of service] that I found out. 🙃
Still... cherished that first read thru the Bible. ⭐Special time w God 😊📖🙏✝️
I highly recommend pairing audio w your Bible reading. Or reading todays portion and then listening to it again as you do stuff around the house or in your car to work. You have much easier to read Bible versions and audios today... all of which are freeee too.
