Do you believe there is a good order I should follow?
I am mostly been listening to an audio bible and listening to the books matthew, mark, luke, john, acts, romans and corinthians a lot.
It's best to begin with a gospel. (because today, we need to know God had a plan that was far reaching, from the beginning)
And, then after reading a gospel or 2 (or all), then you could turn and begin the Old Testament.
I'd previously read through the Bible near age 12 (it seemed a worthwhile challenge to me then, and I was a reader)...and then it happened to me that a year or two after that, I felt a feeling that I
wanted to read through it again (so that it wasn't me doing a challenge this time, but me instead this time it was me reading it from a desire to experience the words, stories, books).
After those 2 times, I didn't read through that way again, until I started again recently. I read instead books here and there all those years between, which can work well if you have the broad knowing of the Bible.
Here's an invaluable thing though: the goal should
not be to finish quickly or in a set timeframe.
I'm currently in Proverbs, which has slown me down plenty (as did the Psalms also --
and it's wonderful to be slowed down!).
Reading through again, I'm not trying to hurry at all, and now I know better than merely to have a goal to just finish.
That's a wrong goal, now.
Now the goal is very different -- to dwell in the words.
And this is also a goal anyone can very greatly benefit from, even if they are aiming to read through fully.
It means that some days I will read a chapter or 2 or 3, or 4....even more perhaps.
But it means that there will be many other days when I cannot read more than 1 or 2 or 3
verses, and am totally, totally full.
Full. And need to stop, and just dwell with the words. That's the needed way to read: with true listening.
(this getting-totally full in less than a couple of minutes especially happens for me in the 4 gospels a lot, because His words are living)
So, I'd start with a gospel, if the first time, because you kinda need a gospel as a kind of context for the Old Testament now a days. Not just the Good News message alone, but more. And then you could go to the Old Testament, as you wish.
All books of the Old Testament from Genesis through Nehemiah are
sequential and often interconnected in ways that matter. (so don't read them here and there at random)
For example, if you are reading
Joshua, it will be crucially needed that you've read
Deuteronomy, and paid attention, so that you heard, listened, heard something like Deuteronomy 12:29-31 (and more also in Deuteronomy) and it soaked in, and you remember it, so that when you read Joshua, you are then having context that the Bible is giving for what is happening in Joshua, so that it makes far better sense.
