New Years Resolutions

[Wilfred of Ivanhoe]

How many of you make these? I know that they often fail, but I have a few.

1. Read the Bible in a year following the Robert Murray M'cheyne (SP?) track.

2. Get to work at least 30 minutes early to do coffee, read scripture, and get my online time in before work starts.

3. Increase exercise

4. Reduce how much I eat per sitting

Anyone else?

 

[CoffeeSwirls]

I don't have any set resolutions this year, at least not ones that can be documented. I have read the Bible chronologically in each of the last two years, and would not have been able to maintain a steady course if there were not others doing it with me. I have a tendency to fall behind, jump ahead and this was detrimental in years past. If you are anything like me, I suggest getting a reading partner. It may not seem that you need one in January, but in October you could wonder where you fell behind.

Reading the entire Bible is something that every Christian should do at least once in their lifetime. We need to be familiar with all of it, not just the parts of it that are easy reading. The books of Numbers and Leviticus come to mind as books that I really had to force my way through in the first year. But the more I learn, the more I realize that these books are vital to a true understanding of the rest.

I am now working on a slower reading with no time limit. I could read the entire Bible 50 times in my life, but that is like waterskiing across the Great Barrier Reef, when the true wonders are found below the surface. I suggest getting out your diving gear in 2006 and really getting into the depths where the choisest pearls are found.

With a solid plan like the M'cheyne schedule as your foundation, you will be very blessed and this blessing can only continue into the rest of your life.

Psalm 1:1-3