A Better New Year's Resolution

Happy New Year!!!! Not sure how you celebrated bringing in the New Year, but I am sure you are thinking about that infamous New Year's resolution that you are making or have already broken even the New Year just started.

There are many New Year's resolutions that most people are going to make, which most of them deals with losing weight or breaking a bad habit. There is one New Year's resolution that I recommend that you can keep up with: Read the Bible from cover to cover.

Most Christians have not read the Bible from cover to cover for one reason or another. I am sure Leviticus has stopped people dead in their tracks in their Bible reading plan. You might wonder why I should read the Bible all the way through or just read the Bible in general. Gabriel Hughes gives us 20 reasons why we should read the Bible: 

To grow in Christ (2 Peter 3:18) 

To learn wisdom (Proverbs 4:5) 

To be equipped (2 Timothy 3:17) 

To teach others (Colossians 3:16) 

To know God's will (Romans 12:2) 

To find comfort (2 Corinthians 1:3) 

To give praise to God (Psalm 56:4) 

To hope in His promises (Titus 1:2) 

To walk in His ways (Psalm 119:105) 

To be sanctified in truth (John 17:17) 

To turn away from sin (Psalm 119:11) 

To love all the more (Philippians 1:9) 

To receive instruction (Romans 15:4) 

To listen to correction (2 Timothy 4:2) 

To pray more effectively (Matthew 6:9) 

To remember the gospel (2 Timothy 2:8) 

To remain disciplined (1 Corinthians 9:27) 

To look forward to heaven (Colossians 3:1) 

To have the mind of Christ (Philippians 2:5) 

To keep your eyes upon Jesus (Hebrews 12:2)

These are all good reasons why you should read the Bible in its entirety and just the portions you have highlighted. 

I strongly encourage you, if you have not already, to pick a Bible reading plan. There are plenty out there. If you do not want to do a reading plan, you can just simply start in Genesis and read all the way to Revelation at your own pace without feeling you have a checklist just to read the Bible. 

Whatever you do in with your Bible reading, just pick it up, read it, and devour it. Jeremiah 15:16 says, "Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your words became for me joy and gladness in my heart, For I have been called by Your name, O Yahweh God of hosts." 

Make one of you New Year's resolutions be, or the only one, to read the Bible.