Bible in a year...

This year, my New Year's resolution is to have a new relationship with sin AND HENCE a new relationship with God. To have a new relationship with God, I needed to learn more about who God is and know of his forever unchanging attributes. To accomplish this, there was no better place to start than the very own Word of God - the Bible.

This year, my New Year's resolution includes reading the entire Bible by December 31st.

To be honest, I have tried doing Bible-in-a-year many times before but always failed miserably. I would delightfully keep up with the program for a few months before having a busy week and fall behind a couple of chapters. In the end I would become so demotivated that giving up eventuated.

Julia never got to read the entire Bible.

So what makes this year possibly the year of change?

I am not sure but I know my head thinks differently. I genuinely desire to be better familiarized with the Bible. I want to know what the Word of God instructs and I hunger for wisdom. No, make that I need to know what the Word of God instructs. It's a necessity, it's my priority. I don't know if I can say with great cerntainty that this time I will not give up because I don't trust myself. Yet evey moment thus far spent meditating on God's Words, the Holy Spirit never failed excite my soul. Slowly I can feel that God is increasing my appetite and reading capacity, reading is slowly becoming easier and easier which was one of the difficulty that I experienced previously.

14 days into the month of January with plenty of God's grace, the book of Genesis is finished.

What amazing grace!

my Evidence Bible and reading specs

Reading kit: a yellow crayon highlighter,
a pencil and blue pen for note taking,
a red pen to mark the days and chapters
plus a notebook for scribbles.
Jan 4th was done sitting on my bed - therefore the terrible 3yo hand writing :P

Life Applications Bible - where my notes are stored. Oops I can't spell "Iseral"!

more notes.

Genesis Chapters:

• Creation (chapter 1, 2)
• The fall of man (chapter 3 - 5)
• The Great Flood (chapter 6 - 9)
• The Tower of Babel (chapter 10 - 11)
• Abraham (chapter 12 - 25)
• Issac (chapter 25 - 26)
• Jacob (chapter 27 - 36)
• Joseph (chapter 37 - 50)

Now I am on chapter 13 of Exodus. God has just delivered the children of Israel from the hands of Pharaoh and very soon Israel will be in the wilderness.

I found this website online which tells of the stories in the Bible using little Leggo men! It's quite interesting and truly facinating :)

http://www.thebricktestament.com/genesis/index.html