I am NOT a fan of the one-year Bible. In any translation, with notes from any author.
I started the one-year Bible several years, but never finished it. Never made it to December 31st on time. It seemed that something always happened to de-rail me. I would get caught up in a passage or in a concept or become arrested by the Spirit and not move from Old Testament to New or vice versa. Before you know it, I would be three or four days behind and then it was a box on my to-do list to have to check off and we all know that becomes nothing more than just surface reading.
Who came up with the idea that we were supposed to read the Bible through in a year? And why? To make ourselves feel better? To make God feel better? To make us feel organized or accomplished?
If it works for you, then I would never want to discourage you from it. There is certainly nothing wrong about it.
But before you put it on your list of New Year's Resolutions for this upcoming year, please take a moment and see whether it is the most effective way for you to talk to God and for Him to talk to you. And take another moment to see if you are eating it or if you are just taking a bite and chewing and spitting it back out.
I leave you with this quote from Charles Haddon Spurgeon:
Some people like to read so many [Bible] chapters every day.
I would not dissuade them from the practice,
but I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day
than rinse my hand in several chapters.
Oh, to be bathed in a text of Scripture,
and to let it be sucked up in your very soul,
til it saturates your heart!
© 2011 by Melani Brady Shock
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