when reading the bible try and think of it like you're getting to know someone
You're getting to know God, your maker, as well as creator of heaven and earth
There are some who go into the bible looking for it to please
them
I don't believe that would be the proper attitude to take toward Gods word
Try and go into it as if instead you are trying to please God, to allow him to guide and teach you.
There may be a lot of things he wants a person to catch up on real quick.
This may mean some jumping around here and there for awhile until the two of you get rather well aquainted.
That close relationship with him being established, knowing his likes and dislikes, what he expects, what he also offers and promises.
I've met some people who claimed to have read the bible from front to back 5 times over...and more.
A former employer being just one of such persons.
And we'd talk and Id think why are there then these verses and lessons that have seemingly gone unnoticed???
Almost as if certain people think it must be read from beginning to end in order when perhaps they've only gotten as far as the book of Esther when God wanted to speak to them that day from the book of Proverbs instead.
It's not an instruction manual on how to construct something such as a coffee table which needs to go in order.
It is Gods living word to us. There are verses which speak to us directly relating to ones life that day, in that moment.
And if one is to take it page by page in order they may be missing something God perhaps want to relate to them right then maybe in Matthew when they are still in Genesis.
Although I do agree if one is to start on a chapter or book to finish it to get the message in context to prevent any confusion.
Im not suggesting there's any wrong way or right way to read the bible, any reading is better than none.
Although take for instance...
-what part of your life do you wish to want to work on,
-what aspects of your creator do you wish to know?
-then Study those parts.
Lets say you have a car and the transmission is acting up, and you want direct advice from the manufacturer on how to repair the transmission. So you get a manual.
Well it would stand to reason to turn directly to the transmission section which could be 7 chapters into the book as opposed to looking at the carburetor section which has no relevance at that point in time.
Lets say you wish to bake a blueberry muffin surprise cake and get the betty crocker cook book
You wouldn't start at page 1 and and lead up to it at page 267 right?
There are those who may disagree with me here, and that's totalllly fine.
What I'm trying to suggest is this.
Pray about it to God
Tell him what you are dealing with that day or what you wish to know or want him to teach you and then...
ask him to guide you where to read.
Because he can and often will, much more often than if we tried to guide ourselves.
Often when one starts getting heavy into reading Gods word it is because of the need of guidance, and rightly so because we haven't been guided correctly otherwise, How can we be?
Christ is the best guide, which is why we make the best followers.
I personally like to read where God leads me to read, because then it is like Christ is speaking to me right now, as opposed to reading something he said to someone else many years ago.
God Bless
Psalm 32:8-9
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.
Do not be like the horse or the mule,
which have no understanding
but must be controlled by bit and bridle
or they will not come to you.
