When you get old it's like preparing for your finals in college, You start 'cramming' for the test eh? Didn't want to say anything earlier and set myself up for failure. I've been reading "The Bible in a Year" almost every night. In my depressed week I missed a few nights and had to play catch up reading two sections at a time, but mostly this year I've read every daily section and now feel very comfortable saying I WILL finish it this year! I've tried to do it years past and always crashed and burned before I finished.
Each night I read part of the Old Testament, then some of the New Testament, Psalms and finishing with Proverbs. It's wonderfully done and truly makes it easy to read the Bible completely! Some nights I want to read the next part to see what happens. Sometimes it makes me get out my Bible and read more.
Most people don't realize that the Bible, especially the Old Testament, is an ongoing story, great history lesson of the time. It makes me think and consider my own life and especially how REALLY GRATEFUL that Jesus came to save me! Folks in the Old Testament didn't have that Blessed Assurance and even the writers of the gospels and the rest of the New Testament had no idea of how long Christianity would last and how far and wide it would reach.
We know 'the rest of the story' and as they did back then, we need to prepare and live our life as if Jesus is coming back tomorrow.
ARE YOU READY??