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Reading Through the Bible

I still consider myself a new believer even though it's been...ack...12 years! I knew of God all my life but never knew what it meant to have a relationship with him until the fall after I graduated high school (cue another ack!)

I've done all sorts of Bible studies during this time. I've done the traditional study of actually reading and discussing books in the Bible. I've done book studies that you can buy at every Christian bookstore around. But the one thing I haven't done is read through the entire Bible. Actually when I started thinking about it I realized just how few books of the Bible I have read in the last 12 years. It is quite sad and I'm sure my relationship with God is lacking because of it.
So why now? Well one of my closest friends back in Colorado mentioned to me that she was reading through the WHOLE Bible in fast track style. Basically as many chapters as she could get through each week. I expressed how awesome I thought that would be to do and started to consider trying it myself. But I know myself and I know that I would never accomplish that task on my own. Well luckily for me my friend is awesome and offered to pause her journey and wait for me to catch up. Lucky for me she had only been doing it for a few weeks.

After completing the 50 chapters in Genesis the first week I was excited for week two to start and read through Exodus. Well last week was an adventure in a half. It was so busy that I was lucky to get any sitting down and quiet time to myself and when I did I just wanted to veg and read something that I didn't have to remember or think about. But I made sure and did my 40 chapters for the week, which is what we decided on reading each week.

This week I'll finally catch up to where she was and we will be able to start reading together next week. I'm really excited to see what else God does in my life during this season! He's already showed himself several time to me. Once yesterday morning! I'm sure that I will be learning a lot during this time and I'm sure that God is going to be around a lot too!

I'm really excited that in a few short weeks I will be heading back to Colorado to visit all my friends and family and I know I'll be meeting with this friend of mine and that we will have a great conversation about what God is doing in our lives. We already are over email but it will be fun to let the kids play while we talk face to face instead of via email.

Have you ever read through the Bible? What amazing things did God show you during that season?

Looking for a simple chapter checklist for your reading through the Bible plan? Check out the one Stacey made for herself that we are both using for this study here.

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