Read Your Bible, All the Way Through, This Year
It's not too late to start. And you can do it in just 15 minutes a day.
by Rod D. Martin
January 3, 2022
It is not too late to start reading the entire Bible by the end of 2022. So you're a few days into the year already: so what?
Do what we do here at Martin Capital, every single year: Genesis to Revelation, Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, straight through.
It's easy to find a reading plan, but you don't need one. Four chapters a day will do it, and will get you ahead enough that if you miss a few days (like you just did) it won't matter.
After a while, you'll discover that the Bible builds on itself. You know, like any other book. And that the order is as inspired as the text.
Read the Bible -- all of the Bible -- straight through a few times, and you'll discover things you never understood before, including the relative importance of some things you either underestimated or overestimated previously.
All of God's Word is...wait for it...God's Word. Everything builds on the history in Genesis. The histories later build on the Law. The wisdom books require an understanding of the history as well as the Law. The Prophets require a working knowledge of the history, the Law and the wisdom books. The New Testament is built on all of those, and on itself, in a particular order.
Yes, you can benefit from diving in anywhere. But why would you? You don't do that with other books. There's a reason.
This year, read Genesis to Revelation, straight through. And then do it again next year. And discover the amazing exponential learning curve God has provided you when you simply take His Word seriously.
P.S. This takes 15 minutes a day. If you just have to follow some other reading plan too, go for it. Will the world really end if you read more Bible instead of less? Seriously.
