Many of us struggle to make the time to read the Bible daily, and we’re fairly quick to chalk it up to lack of time. I saw a graphic yesterday presenting some numbers intended to dispel that notion, at least for most of us:

• Average time Americans spend watching television or streaming video content:
  4 hours per day
  
  
• Average time American internet users spend on social media:
  2 hours per day
  
  
• Time required to read through the Bible
• in 2 years: 6 minutes per day
• in 1 year: 12 minutes per day
• in 3 months: 50 minutes per day

While these daily-reading times don’t account for the time to think deeply, pray over, and further study what we’re reading, the point is that most of us probably can carve out 15-30 minutes of our day for these disciplines.

So, if we’re not, why not? The reason may be slightly different for each one of us, but it likely comes down to a misunderstanding of (1) what the Bible is, (2) why God has given it to us, and (3) how we should approach it.

A recent article by pastor and author Dane Ortlund helps to flesh some of this out:

crossway.org/articles/9-wrong-ways-to-read-the-bible-and-one-better-way

Two helpful daily resources:

• Daily devotional: truthforlife.org/devotionals
• One-year reading plan: truthforlife.org/daily

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. (Psalm 1:1-2)

Blessings in Christ,

Pastor Evan