DO YOU HAVE TIME

It has been said we make time for the things which are important to us.

According to the Barna Research group, Bible reading in the year 2017 continued to decline. This speaks volumes when we look across the landscape and the morality of many.  According to the group, the trend will continue for the next six years.

Women (68%) desire more Bible reading than men (54%).  God wills for men to be the leaders in their households, but if they don’t read and study the Word, how can we properly lead?    How will we know where we are going if we don’t read the Map?  And how will we instill within our children the importance of His Word, if we don’t take it seriously ourselves?

All too often the excuse for not studying the Bible is the word “busy.”  I don’t doubt that everyone is busy.  But busy about what?

“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”    (Psalm 90:12)

 

“It takes seventy hours and forty minutes to read the Bible at pulpit rate.

It takes fifty-two hours and twenty minutes to read the Old Testament.

It takes eighteen hours and twenty minutes to read the New Testament.

In the Old Testament, the Psalms take the longest to read:  four hours and twenty-eight minutes.

In the New Testament, the Gospel of Luke takes two hours and forty-three minutes.

That is less than twelve minutes a day to read it through in a year.”      ~ Unknown

“Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.”     (II Timothy 2:15

“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts:  and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:”     (I Peter 3:15)

“These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the Word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”  (Acts 17:11)

“The knowledge we possess today is an accumulation of yesterday’s lessons.  This being true, we are smarter now than we have ever been in our life.  Being more experienced and wiser, we  should be able to do more.

Now is the time for life to be used, lived and enjoyed.  Much precious time is wasted by using the now to get ready to live tomorrow.  But this is still true – “Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow.”

Now is the watchword of the wise.  The foolish, however, say they will do this or that tomorrow.  This takes no working of the brain, no activity of the hands, no moving of the feet – just a little wagging of the tongue.

Sometimes it is now or never for two reasons.  First, time may run out and there are no more “nows.”  Second, tomorrow you may no longer have the desire.  Good intentions don’t always linger.  Quench them enough times and they will die.”     ~ Leroy Brownlow

“Many people talk of knowing the Bible from cover to cover, but all they know is the cover.”                                                                                      

Eileen Light