Today, February 26, 2024, the Lord enabled me to complete my reading the Holy Bible for the 47th time! Then, I prepared myself to start the next round for the 48th time. It has been my burden to read and read the Bible, the best and only Book that is worth reading, over and over again.
By God's grace, I pray and hope that this grace of reading the Bible which has been my lifestyle will ever be so until the end. Though the will is present with me, the working out of the will is all up to the Lord. Therefore, I look to Him for His mercy day by day.
As in the past readings, this time too, I enjoyed the Lord's speaking now and then through my reading of the word of God. The word of God is ever fresh, no matter how many times I have already read it. Every time I read, it is still new and fresh. No wonder, it is the living word of God.
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. John 6:63
The word and the spirit are one. To be filled with the Spirit, we need to be filled with the word of God too. I find through experience that the best way to be filled with the Spirit is to be filled with the word of God. Because the word is spirit and the word is life.
As I stated in my forty-sixth reading of the Bible, I still state the same now. My desire is much more than reading the Bible 47 times. Now, I pray and I am heading towards reading the Bible a hundred times in my lifetime. I don't know how many more years the Lord will give me in this earthly tabernacle. If His will be so, I pray for His grace that within the many years still remaining or until He returns, I may be especially graced to hit the century of reading the Holy Bible a hundred times. I can only trust the Lord and do my best to faithfully read and read His word day by day. That said, it is all up to the Lord to fulfill this desire of reading the Bible a hundred times.
Praise the Lord for this grace of reading His word! Praise the Lord that I can still read and read the word of God!
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