Make It A Habit

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” 2Tim.2:15^..

Get a Bible. Don’t just get a Bible, read the Bible. Don’t just read the Bible, study the Bible. I love to study the Bible, which is why I find it challenging sometimes to read the Bible. I know some of you may find that statement confusing so let me explain. I was saved in August of 1995, baptized in the Holy Spirit in December of 1995. And baptism in the Holy Spirit kind of put a hunger for the Bible into me. I can’t explain it; I just can’t get enough of the Bible. I have engaged scriptures non-stop since then till now, all glory be to Jesus. When I say non-stop I mean non-stop, I didn’t backslide for one day by the grace of God. There is no period of my walk with God I cannot account for, no time where I was just floating. Someone described me as a passionate person. Well when I wasn’t serving God, I was serving the devil – doing the things of the world passionately, things that if you knew your ears would literally ring. When God saved me, guess what, all that passion was converted to doing the things of God non-stop ever since. I have never read the Bible from Genesis to Revelations and I know this will surprise a lot of you. I have never started from Genesis and read through to Revelation. I always get stuck in on Book or in a chapter of one Book and I can stay there for another three months. I know people, like my wife, she can read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and getting ready to start again but I am still in the Book of Joshua. It used to bother me a lot and I would feel so condemned for not being as good as those people. But I realized that God does not even require that of me. What He requires of me is to get the Word into me. Meanwhile when I can say I have not read from Genesis to Revelation you should know that there probably isn’t any part of scripture I haven’t read in my twenty years. My point is this; you will get further studying than just reading. It is fine to read five or ten chapters a day if you can but if you are able to study two verses a day you will have done your life a whole lot of good. You should read wide but you should go deep – study deep. Technology has so evolved that you can highlight and annotate portions of your Bible as you study even on your mobile device. My best conversations are with people who are asking questions about portions of scripture they do not understand. I can spend two hours on such conversations and it is because it brings up a whole lot of things in me. The first phase of progression of success is to study the Bible continually.

Prayer: Father, help me study the Bible continually, in Jesus Name.