Am I Just Sitting on My Faith?
Each year in December I come up with a list of goals for the coming year: lose weight. Exercise more. Finish the book I've been writing (off more than on) the last umpteen years. Read the bible through in a year. This past December was no different, the goals are all still there. Except for one. This year my goal isn't to read the bible through in a year. In the many (dmany!) years I've set that one up, I've failed every single time. So no. Not going to be a goal this year. Did I give up on that? No. This year, however, I have a new insight. This year, I'm focusing on studying the New Testament. I began on January 2 (the first I was finishing up a study from December) and while I thought at first I would be going at a faster rate, I'm currently in the middle of Matthew chapter 15. But you know what? I'm okay with that. I don't want to zoom through the Word just to say I've done it and can move on. I want to take my time and chew on small bit