2016 is gone (and I have heard TONS of people say, AMEN!) and 2017 has begun.
Resolutions are being made.
Goals are being set.
Regrets are being cast aside and a hope of something new is revived.
So here's to a new year, new moves and a renewed passion and hunger for the Word of God!
For the past three years on this day I have started a daily Bible reading plan through YouVersion to read the Bible through in a year. It's an easy plan and I like it!! Obviously, I have used the same plan for the past three years. Sometimes I sit with my phone/computer/ipad open to the reading plan and follow along with my physical Bible because I have a goal to give each of my children at least one of my Bibles with my highlights and notes in them as they grow. I have a few from my younger days that I need to have rebound for them. I digress...
This past fall I found myself in a rut. I read my Bible every day but it had lost something. I added a couple of leadership devotionals to my routine and enjoyed them very much but it just wasn't grabbing me like I wanted.
I remember being a teenager and having an insatiable hunger for the word of God. I would sit for hours at a time with my notebook and just devour the scriptures and write notes and sermons. I want that back!
I took Noah to the bookstore one evening to get a new book for a project he had to do for school and while there I found this amazing Bible! It was just what I needed. It's called The Beautiful Word Coloring Bible. While I would love for this Bible to have some commentary or a concordance, I love the coloring and journaling spaces that are provided to help you focus on the word and to make notes.
I was on my way to changing a few things in order to renew my hunger and I was pretty excited about it! Then a couple weeks ago, a friend added me to a group on Facebook that is for women who are going to step-it-up and read the Bible together using the Chronological plan. Okay...I am probably slightly OCD and while most of the time change doesn't frustrate me or rattle me, the thought of NOT doing the same reading plan I have enjoyed for the past three years is...well...rattling :) But in an effort to make adjustments, begin our church's 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting, and enter 2017 with a new attitude and hunger, I'm diving in!
I was on my way to changing a few things in order to renew my hunger and I was pretty excited about it! Then a couple weeks ago, a friend added me to a group on Facebook that is for women who are going to step-it-up and read the Bible together using the Chronological plan. Okay...I am probably slightly OCD and while most of the time change doesn't frustrate me or rattle me, the thought of NOT doing the same reading plan I have enjoyed for the past three years is...well...rattling :) But in an effort to make adjustments, begin our church's 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting, and enter 2017 with a new attitude and hunger, I'm diving in!
So here's to a new year, new moves and a renewed passion and hunger for the Word of God!
