Scheduling: Truths Pursuit

As a Christian, I have been a river crosser since the day I was born again. In fact, all Christians should be river crossers, the real Hebrews, today. I had been enjoying the Lord's speaking through the Life-study of Hebrews while being actively involved in the final proofreading work of the New Testament Recovery Version in Hyderabad. The time to pursue this life study coincided with the time of my being in Hyderabad. Therefore, instead of postponing the pursuit for a later date, I decided to do it while in Hyderabad itself. In fact, I determined to complete the entire life-study of Hebrews before I would get back to Gurugram.

This is a testimony of not the Hebrews study per se but the scheduling and the determination to study the sixty-nine messages during my stay in Hyderabad. Though the schedule there was tight and I learned the lesson that where there is a will there indeed is a way too. Not only the reading of the life-study of Hebrews, but I decided to also complete listening to the sixty-nine radio program corresponding to the sixty-nine life-study messages.

The Lord granted me a  special grace to pursue and enjoy both the reading and listening of the life-study messages. Whenever I got time, I either listened to the online radio message that lasted for about half an hour or read the messages online which also lasted almost the same time. In that way, I could complete the entire life-study messages as per schedule. 

In the process, I also learned the lesson of multitasking. While taking a morning or evening walk, or while washing or serving my fellow brothers and sister with food, I listened to the messages, and every night before going to bed I would go to the rooftop of our accommodation building and listened to a message or two along with prayer. In this way, I enjoyed the Lord's speaking and I also learned the truths and got constituted with them.

This is a practical life lesson of redeeming the time and paying the price to buy the truth. This is also what it means to be a river crosser in my pursuit of the truths; crossing over from the old way to the new way. It is also by scheduling that the New Testament Recovery Version could be translated. Our scheduling began in 2014 with the study of Greek online, then translation. The way we took seemed to be long but it turned out to be the shortest and best way. This way is a way of scheduling and being faithful to the schedule all the way. What a blessing to be able to learn this lesson!

With this lesson, I am now pursuing the reading of the Bible; to read through the text from Genesis to Revelation twice in a year and to read through with the footnotes once in a way, thereby reading through the Bible thrice in a year. I have made the schedule and am starting to follow it. Similarly, scheduling is done for reading through the whole life-study and High Peak truth. God has blessed the food, now I must eat them daily, in a regular and regulated manner.

Lord, grace me.