Get Excited About Reading the Bible!Sample

GET REAL

It’s important to realize that every day isn’t “goose-bump day” when you read your Bible. I’ve had times when I’m reading the Bible and it has the exact answer I need for my current problem or worry. Or times when a certain verse just jumps off the page at me and I have a super-revelation moment that changes everything.

But that’s not every day. Some days I just read it. Some days it seems as dry as a bone. I don’t feel like I got any kind of major revelation from it, and frankly, some parts didn’t seem to make any sense. Sometimes it would even make me mad, because I didn’t understand it, or it seemed like bad news. 

But I’ve learned not to go by my feelings. Second Timothy 3:16 says, “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” It’s all in the Bible for a reason, so I read it all. I want the full counsel of God, don’t you? Not just the feel-good Scriptures. It’s all good. 

When I was a Bible school teacher, I used to tell my students, if anything in the Bible sounds like bad news, read it again. Because it’s all good. It’s all profitable. It really does have our answers, and we’re not going to get those answers unless we’re reading it. 

No “exact answer” days or “super-revelation” days would ever have happened in my life if I wasn’t reading the Bible. So I just read it every day. One person I know says, “If you wait for that ‘good ol’ Bible reading feeling’ to come upon you before you read the Bible, you’ll never read it!” That’s why we want to make it a habit—something we do whether we feel like it or not