A Hint on How to Read the Bible | Robert Wayne Atkins, P.E.

Most people open the Bible and then they immediately begin reading it.

However, a more effective way to read the Bible is to pause before you begin reading and ask God to help you better understand His Holy Words. And also ask God to please help you see if there is an application to your own life in the Words that you about to read.

God will help you if you take the time to ask for His help.

If you will consistently ask God for His help when you read the Holy Bible, then you will gradually begin to understand how the different concepts in different parts of the Bible are related. And you will more clearly see how you can be blessed by God if you will do what the Holy Bible says.

James 4:8 (New King James Version):
8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.

God has told us in the Holy Bible that the current heaven and the current earth will pass away and that He will create a new heaven and a new earth.

When that happens then the only knowledge of "eternal value" that we will be able to take with us into our eternal home will be our knowledge of the Holy Bible.

Wouldn't it make good sense to spend a few minutes each day acquiring the type of knowledge that will be of eternal value?

1 Peter 1:25 (New King James Version):
25 For the word of the LORD endures forever.

Matthew 24:35 (New King James Version):
35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.

Isaiah 65:17 (New King James Version):
17 "For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind."

Isaiah 66:22 (New King James Version):
22 "the new heavens and the new earth Which I will make shall remain before Me," says the LORD,

Revelation 21:1 (New King James Version):
1 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.

If you are open to a suggestion on how to read the Bible then may I suggest that you start on page one of Genesis which is the first book in the Bible. Then read one, two, or more pages as you believe appropriate and stop at the beginning of the first paragraph on a new page. The next time you read then continue where you left off. By reading the same number of pages each time you read, your mind will sometimes reflect on what you have read as you do the other activities that you must do each day. If you read the Bible every day then you will gradually read all the way to the end of the Bible which is the last page of the book of Revelation.

Genesis tells the story of how God created everything. And the book of Revelation tells us what God's plans are for the future. Everything between Genesis and Revelation is the story of how mankind sometimes rebelled against God and how mankind sometimes desired to obey God.

When you have finished reading the Bible then you will be very pleased with how you have gradually but systematically grown in your knowledge of what the Bible actually says, and in how your faith in God has increased. And you will be better prepared to deal with the problems that the devil throws at you every day.

When you have finished reading the entire Bible from beginning to end then may I suggest that you begin reading again on page one and that you gradually read the entire Bible again. Although you will be reading the same Words that you have read before, you may be surprised that God will give you a new and deeper understanding of what you read.

If you will read the Bible every day then you will be providing spiritual food for your eternal soul and this is just as important as providing physical food for your mortal body. If you will pause and think about it for just a moment, then you may realize that depriving your eternal soul of spiritual food is just as bad as depriving your mortal body of the necessary physical food that it requires.

May God Bless,
Grandpappy.

Grandpappy's e-mail address is: RobertWayneAtkins@hotmail.com