Perhaps the greatest solace in a person’s life is to get to know God through the Bible. To grow, you want to read the Bible each day as an element of your time with Our Lord God — your devotions or quiet time. In this daily time with the Lord God I like to recommend prayer, wide Bible reading, praise, thanksgiving, confession, and meditation — these are paths to reach out to God with your spirit. Bible reading is 1 technique of letting God refresh your spirit and talk to your intelligence. If you wish to learn the Bible, I like to recommend that you read broadly instead of narrowly. An one-verse devotional could be quick, but it will not truly help you to understand the Bible. I try each morning to read one chapter from the Old Testament, one chapter from Psalms or Proverbs, and one chapter from the New Testament.
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How to Read the Bible
Saturday, September 5th, 2009Reading the Bible is different from reading any other literary text.You can’t go to chapter one and read everything about God and go to chapter two to read everything about Jesus, for example. It’s way better to read by paragraph, these too are synthetic but they do conform better to the first language than verses. Some ground rules have to be set up first:
- Ask for guidance and to be in a position to accept what’s written and to be in a position to apply His will to your life.
- Never, never read the Bible trying to explanation your faith on any subject. It’s only man’s nature to take concepts out of the correct context.
- If you continue to don’t understand, write down the trouble spot and continue onward. You can discover the answers later in your reading.
- Don’t read large quantities of the Bible in one setting. Begin with the New Testament, folks who begin with the Old Testament nearly never read the Bible all of the way through. The New Testament is what’s binding on us today not the Old. We need to follow God’s will for us today not what was meant for the Jews. Don’t take what you need it to point out with you first.
With these pointers, maybe you’d better find solace and enlightenment when reading the Bible.