This year, I'm going to give a new Bible reading plan a try after reading about it at Tim Challies' blog. The reading plan belongs to someone called Professor Horner (no I'd not heard of him either!) and the basic idea is that read ten chapters of the Bible each day. Rather than reading a chunk of ten chapters from one book, you read one chapter from ten different lists of books.
The way that it is set up you will never read the same ten chapters in combination again because all the lists are of different lengths. This allows the Bible to shed light on itself.
The document linked above includes some bookmarks you can print out and put in your Bible.
This is Day 2 of the plan for me, and I'm absolutely loving it! I particularly love the varied diet it gives you - today I read from Exodus, Joshua, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Jeremiah, Matthew, Acts, Colossians, and 1 Thessalonians. But the verse that stood out for me today was Jeremiah 2:25b
'But you said, "It is hopeless,
for I have loved foreigners,
and after them I will go."'
How often are we like Israel in this respect!? We say that it is hopeless, that we love our sin, so we will continue our pursuit of sin. There is nothing we can do. But this passage shines a big spot light on the big lie that we believe, and brings us back to God.
"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you." James 4:6-8
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