In February I decided to read the Bible in 90 days. It was a big challenge and I thought it would be a cool thing to do. I made it over halfway through. (It helped that I took a trip to the midwest with long layovers between flights both ways when I caught up on my reading plan.) I felt good about getting that far.
Then it happened. A week went by without making it all the way through the assigned reading. Then another. Then another. I just wasn't keeping up and then I stopped altogether because it felt hopeless to be so far behind.
Today I picked up where I left off, but I'm not going to sprint through God's word. I've decided to read in a new way. I'm still going to read straight through. (I'm almost done with Isaiah now.) But instead of trying to read huge chunks in a sitting, I'm going to read until a passage strikes me in such a way that I want to ponder it for an extended period of time. I may read several chapters or just one. And that is okay.
Too often I'm an all or nothing kind of guy. God meets us where we are and today He's graciously meeting me as a guy who is learning all or nothing is not the best way.
