Merry Christmas to all, Thank you for coming by this blog. I
try to post something as often as I can. I know, it’s a pretty vague schedule.
I am working on a more consistent approach for the coming year. This year past
I finally met the challenge of reading the bible through in its entirety. The
bible is the living word of God, written in a fifteen hundred year span by more
than forty authors from many different economic categories. Kings, military leaders, peasants,
philosophers, fisherman, tax collectors, poets, musicians, statesman, scholars
and Shepherds were all involved in writing down the single most important book
in all of the world.
Some of the most notable authors include David, a king,
poet, musician, Shepherd and warrior. There was Amos a herdsman, Joshua, a
military general, Nehemiah a cupbearer to a pagan king, Daniel a prime minister,
Solomon a king and philosopher. In the new testament there was Luke a physician
and historian, Peter a fisherman, Matthew a tax collector, Paul a rabbi, and
Mark who was Peter’s secretary. The Bible was written on three continents,
Asia, Africa, and Europe. And it was written in three Languages, Hebrew,
Aramaic, and Greek. Written in fourteen different literary styles, the Bible
address hundreds of controversial subjects, and most importantly it is the
revelation of the Living God made known to man through Jesus Christ.
The number of Bibles
sold is in the billions. More Bibles have been produced than any other book in
history. In one year The United Bible Society reports that it distributed more
than 20. 8 million complete bibles and another 20.1 million testaments. So far
the Bible has been translated into more than 2500 languages. The Bible has
withstood attacks by enemies set on its destruction. The Roman emperor Diocletian ordered that the
Bible must be destroyed and all Christians must stop worshipping their God,
Churches were destroyed and Bibles were burned, yet Christianity prospered and grew,
so much so, that less than a hundred years later another Roman emperor ordered
fifty copies of the Bible to be prepared at the governments expense.
The Bible is the word of God, it shall last forever. I pray
that you take the challenge this year and read the Bible through. I used the
Life Principles Daily Bible by Charles Stanley.
It gives you Old Testament, Psalms, Proverbs, and New Testament every
day. It generally took me about twenty
minutes a day, and the most convenient time for me is in the morning. I think that I missed about three days, which
I made up for each following day. I took the Bible where ever we went
so that I would not have huge chunks of reading to make up. My Bible has been
to the far reaches of Alaska and the bottom of Arizona. The picture above is where I
meet God every morning, and my cat Mia. She waits for me to make coffee and sit
down, then she crawls on my lap and together we explore what God has to reveal.
The facts above concerning the Bible were taken from
Evidence for Christianity by Josh McDowell. I am going to add its reading to my
Bible reading this year. God bless and have a wonderful Bible filled year.
Cliff
