I am so new to this so please share your thoughts and advice!
Recently I have started a cover to cover 90 day bible challenge, and boy is it a challenge! I will say first off for me reading my bible from beginning to end is not easy. I often forget. I get distracted and I really have to remind myself everyday to read my bible so much so that I have taken to just carrying my bible with me everywhere I go (which is not a bad habit whatsoever). Through this journey though, I have already learned so much about patience and kindness and the love God has for not only me, but all of his children. I have really been working on myself and my thoughts my habits and also what I put into my mind.
I love reading and so the reading part of reading my bible is really great. The discipline of sitting down and reading is another thing, but through learning that discipline I have learned to have a lot of discipline in the rest of my life. I am able to control habits I wasn’t able to before. I have come to realize in the few weeks I have been reading my bible god has worked in me even if the text that I am reading that day does not speak to me directly.
In the process of cleaning up my mind and what I put in it, I have started listening to Jeff and Alyssa Bethke’s podcast. I have been following Jeff’s videos and Facebook page for a while now and I was so excited to see that they were so high up on the list in the Christian podcast category on iTunes. They have such a great mentality on life and happiness and gods grace! I have learned so much from them and because of them I have started to look at life so much differently and more positively.
Alyssa co-wrote a book with Robin James Gunn called Spoken For that has seriously inspired me. It’s written for girls and women, but is really for girls between 13-18. As a 21 year old though I have really benefited from it. They write all about how before time God had already claimed you as his own. You don’t need the love of a boy or a girl or anyone at that, because God loves you and he always will whether you are following him or not. I have been so extremely inspired by this book and its taught me a lot about the self love and self worth that I never thought about before!
I am extremely excited about God’s work in my life and I will continue sharing not only about gods love but all my happy travels throughout Europe and Switzerland!
This is awesome !
How inspiring!
Can’t wait to hear more.
I loved reading your blog, Riley.
I pray for you constantly and I think about you being so far away. God is so faithful to speak to you through His Word. What
an awesome challenge ~ to read God’s Word every day. I took that challenge when I was 9 years old. By His grace, I have been able to read the Bible through every year since then…A lot of years! Even so, I always am amazed to read things that I have never seen quite that way before. There are always NEW things in God’s Word! Since it is the Living Word, that would definitely make sense!
May God continue to enlighten you, open up your understanding as you pursue Him! Love you, dearly ~ Riley!