Saturday, September 15, 2007
Daily Bible Reading
Right now, my wife and I are reading through the Bible, on a schedule to complete it in six months. We are currently in week number three. Along with another couple (our accountability partners, if you will), we decided to read through a different Bible translation every six months. To start off with, we are reading the New Living Translation. So far I have read all of Genesis, all of Job (we are doing a chronological schedule), and the first 15 chapters of Exodus. (I'm also running a little behind, but I'll catch up.) My thoughts on the NLT, so far - pretty happy with it, especially for straight reading of the Bible. Its a bit of a cross between an actual translation and a paraphrase, but as long as the reader knows this going in, I really don't have a problem with it. For study purposes I would always reference a more literal translation like the KJV or NASB, for example. As I read more of the Bible in this translation over the next few months, I'll let everyone know how I liked it.
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21 weeks to go - seems like such an easy task, but there are those chapters...those ones so easy to become bogged down in - like pushing through a field overgrown with brush - geneologies, ceramonial cleansing, and such - but the Lord blesses. At some points in life, it's easy to see the Lord in the big things of life, and at other times, in the small things: the details. I wonder if that is just my perspective, or the way in which God reveals himself.
I probably need to create my own blog with these thoughts, rather than abusing your comment page...nevertheless, may God bless you as you continue on discovering new intricacies of His Word.
21 weeks to go - seems like such an easy task, but there are those chapters...those ones so easy to become bogged down in - like pushing through a field overgrown with brush - geneologies, ceramonial cleansing, and such - but the Lord blesses. At some points in life, it's easy to see the Lord in the big things of life, and at other times, in the small things: the details. I wonder if that is just my perspective, or the way in which God reveals himself.
I probably need to create my own blog with these thoughts, rather than abusing your comment page...nevertheless, may God bless you as you continue on discovering new intricacies of His Word.
I've been exploring Bible translations too. I'm reading NASB for the first time, and finding it interesting. I did ESV earlier this year.
I've found I get much more from just reading my Scripture than I do from "studying". That is, reading rapidly through large pieces in a sitting let me get a wider perspective: see connections I'd otherwise miss, etc.
Mark, I actually got the idea of exploring other translations, as you put it, from reading your blog. And I have had a similar experience in "reading through" the Bible as opposed to studying. Sometimes its good to see the forest, not just the individual trees.
Part of it is having a lifetime of examining trees, magnifying glass in hand. After all that, I find stepping back to look at the forest rather refreshing.
And frankly, there are some messages written out in a single verse, but there are many written across a lot of verses. Those are harder to see when your view is deep and narrow.
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