New believer losing desire to read Bible
Q: How do I stop feeling so distant from God and like the love I have for him is no longer there? So I'm about 2 months into my faith and I'm feeling so distant from God, reading my Bible feels like an absolute chore even tho I used to love reading it. I would sit there for hours studying it when I first came to faith. But now it just feels like I have lost all of that and I don't know what to do I have tried praying and reading my Bible but nothing seems to help.
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A: The Scriptures is how we grow closer to God, know Him more, love him more, and grow in holiness.
I would switch things up for a while.
This reading plan will be a good idea but listen to it on audio Bible instead. In quiet place and focus. The dramatized ones are very neat. I use nasb95 from biblegateway.com (under tools). But the kjv dramatized by Scourby is neat too. Old english but. Loads of dramatic music and neat acting voices. Brings it to life!
You can find the links to those from here, and has reading plan, (a simple one to start).
Additional ideas are to dive into specific teachings in Scripture. These are good. It will help you. 😀
And then you can go back to reading Bible 📖 cover to cover; nothing wrong with listening while reading along 😊✝️.
One other future option might be to get a Readers version of NASB95 or ESV. It has no chapters and verses so you can read it straight thru easily.
I’ve been a Christian for almost 40 years and I have seasons where I fall into something like that briefly. When I stop and examine myself, I may find I’m moving away. That I’ve let some unconfessed and even unrecognized sin into my life. Or I’m feeding my soul with worldly things that need to be cut out. Or I’ve been battling back to back life issues and I’ve gotten tired.
I start by praying and asking for wisdom and for areas in my life that need work to have a light shined on those areas. And you have to mean it. Then I choose a study I might be interested in. I pray that God will use this to help me see where I can do better, to encourage me, to direct me.
I prayed before I read that day. And notice if I was seeing areas in my life that I needed to work on. And I began to get closer to God back Unknowing to me, my busyness had driven a wedge. All good busyness. But still busyness that was interfering with my relationship with God. It needed to be addressed, was and I was back on track. 😊
PS. You also need to be a member of a local bible church. You will have good group studies and fellowship. And grow in closer friendships there with the brethren you will serve and encourage at the church (as well as spend eternity with them.) 🙂
