My Mum and I use different "read through the Bible in a year" Bibles. I use "The One Year Bible" (New Living Translation) and my Mum uses "Every Day with Jesus: One Year Bible" (Holman Christian Standard Bible).
Out of interest I read the comments for today in Mum's Bible. I found it quite thought provoking:
"It is vital to share Christ with others: experience and expression are the alternate beats of the Christian heart. And if these two things are not in operation, the Christian heart ceases to beat. Then what happens? We settle down to dead forms, dead attitudes, and dead prayers.
"This matter of sharing, however, must not be limited only to evangelism. It applies also to sharing with other Christians the things God has shared with us.
"If God has shown you something today from His Word, then it is imperative that you share it with another Christian. As we have been saying, nothing is really ours until we share it - the expression will deepen the impression. So in seeking to stay spiritually fresh, discipline yourself to share appropriate issues with your Christian and non-Christian friends. Many do not do this. They are disciplined in their quiet time or their study of the Scriptures, but they have never disciplined themselves to share. Someone has defined a Christian as one who says by word or deed: "Let me commend my Saviour to you." There is no better definition."
(Every Day With Jesus: One Year Bible, page 1593)
The time at which I have felt most spiritually alive was whilst I was at university, where I would talk about what God was teaching me almost every time I bumped into a Christian friend (which was pretty often!) I need to cultivate this in my post-graduation life!
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