My New Project

I've wanted to start reading through the Bible for a little while now, but I've been trying to decide how I ought to do it. I was trying to decide between a more cursory reading of the whole Bible in a shorter time so that I could get a good grasp of the entire scope of Scripture. But I've also wanted to go through much more slowly, studying each passage in depth trying to learn as much as I can. I didn't know if I should just read through it quickly and then go to a more in depth reading after that, or if I should just start by going all out.

Every time I try to read through the Bible quickly, if find myself caught up investigating different issues. Ultimately I decided that I might as well just take that in depth approach. So here goes . . .

I'm going to be going through each book of the Bible spending as much time as I need to in it before moving on to the next one. I'm hoping that I will learn more than I could imagine. I know this will take quite a while (years, I'm sure) but I'm pretty excited about it.

I'll be beginning in Genesis and continuing in canonical order. The purpose of these posts will be to note some of my more interesting thoughts and discoveries as I go through. I'm not going to be posting everything that I learn here, but only those things that are newer to my understanding or at least that I believe are important enough to note no matter how well known they are.

I am praying that God would guide me along this "journey" through Scripture, showing me things that I've not seen before and teaching me the whole time more and more about him. I had resolved not to approach my readings with an eye for any particular themes (e.g. justice, worship, redemption) in mind, but as I thought about it, I realized that it will be next to impossible for me not to bring subconscious themes to what I read. So instead I will just pray that God use those presumptions and dispositions that I have and do with them what he will – only that he will guide me the whole way and bring out of the text what he sees fit.

I thank my gracious and merciful God for the gifts of enthusiasm and motivation that he has given me for this project and that I will constantly need as I continue it.