Journey through the Bible
I know that I said I wasn’t a resolutionary, so I am not saying anything about resolutions. Resolutions really are just goals. The problem is when we don’t have a plan for reaching those goals. One of my goals this year is to really dive into the Bible…reading every word of it in 2007. I don’t intend to read from Genesis to Revelation, but more or less read through a book at a time and then move on. I will sprinkle Psalms and Proverbs throughout the readings so that I don’t end up with a huge amount of reading in those books left at the end of the year. To further combat my anti-resolutions, I have started this Journey today. Why today? Why not today? If not today, when?
I have begun reading in Romans. Wanted to share some of it with you…Romans 1:19-25 (emphasis mine)
But God’s angry displeasure erupts as acts of human mistrust and wrongdoing and lying accumulate, as people try to put a shroud over truth. But the basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can’t see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being. So nobody has a good excuse. What happened was this: People knew God perfectly well, but when they didn’t treat him like God, refusing to worship him, they trivialized themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither sense nor direction left in their lives. They pretended to know it all, but were illiterate regarding life. They traded the glory of God who holds the whole world in his hands for cheap figurines you can buy at any roadside stand.
So God said, in effect, “If that’s what you want, that’s what you get.” It wasn’t long before they were living in a pigpen, smeared with filth, filthy inside and out. And all this because they traded the true God for a fake god, and worshiped the god they made instead of the God who made them??the God we bless, the God who blesses us. Oh, yes!
What are the gods that you have made for yourself? Have you traded the glory of the one, true God for a trinket that is literally a dime a dozen? Today is as good of a time as any to get rid of the trade show trash that clutters your life.
I pray that this year has blessed you so far and continues to do so.
Blessings.
Hi Tony.
Many thanks for sharing. By the way, if I had to choose a favourite Bible book, Romans would be it.
Have you seen ‘my bible journal.com’? Some friends from your side of the pond. They post on the books of the bible as they are reading through them and comment.
They have left Romans and are well into 2 Corinthians. If you have a spare minute take a look. May well be of help with your Bible reading plan.
God Bless you and yours. I truly pray all is well.
In fellowship through Him.