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Don’t read your Bible in a year…. Instead try this!

Read the Bible slow, section by section, paragraph by paragraph, to understand what God is saying through His Word. A lot of times we read through the Bible as fast as we can because we want to check the box and make sure that we read the Bible in a year, which is great, but not if we don’t understand what God is trying to tell us. If we don’t understand what He’s trying to tell us, then we can’t apply it to our lives.

My tip is, read it slow. Read it section by section, and then maybe go read a commentary. You can go to BibleGateway.com and find some commentaries there where it has some scholars who have studied the scripture who can tell you some history behind it, some things you didn’t know and you wouldn’t know unless you really really studied years and years and years. Take that and use it to apply it to your life.

In the book of Matthew, Jesus talked about two houses, one that was built on a rock and one that was built on sand. The difference between those two houses, the one built on the rock was a person who took the Word of God and applied it to their lives and actually did it, and the person who built their house on the sand was a person who heard the Word of God but didn’t apply it to their life.

Let’s be people who build our house on the rock so like Jesus said, when the wind comes and the storms hit our house, it doesn’t fall.

““Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.””
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭7‬:‭24‬-‭27‬ ‭NIV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/111/mat.7.24-27.NIV