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Reading the Bible

Jeremiah 31:3-4   I did it. I read the whole Bible cover to cover. Not in order but I have read all 66 books in about a year and a half. The first book I read was 2 Timothy and the last book I read was Jeremiah. Random, right? But I got the message, I soaked up as much of God’s Word as I could during that time and I am forever changed. I had two fears about reading the Bible before I started. The first fear I had was that there would be this huge expectation of me and my Biblical knowledge. I realized quickly this fear was absurd, because no matter how many times we read the Bible, we are not done. God is still working on our hearts and our minds. We are constantly being molded in our lives, circumstances change us and God changes our responses to our circumstances, so the Bible is not a once and done kind of thing. God’s Word is living; it as applicable today as it was then. It is unchanging but people are ever-changing so soaking in the same passage during different ti...