Read Through Bible

I PRESS ON TOWARD THE GOAL TO WIN THE PRIZE FOR WHICH GOD HAS CALLED ME HEAVENWARD IN CHRIST JESUS. Philippians 3.14.

Many Christians, sad to say, have no aim or purpose in their spiritual life! Big corporations have targets, plans for achieving it and budgets, essential for success. The small businessmen too make their plans, however modest they might be. Why, you too need to do it for survival today! You will be in a great financial muddle if you do not plan and budget. Many are spending foolishly beyond their means because some profit-orientated financial institutions send them free credit cards!

If you need to make careful plans for day-to-day successful living, how much more seriously do you need to plan for succeeding in your spiritual life? Or, do you consider your spiritual life of no great significance that you can forget about it or put it aside! Do you know that ‘the prospering of your soul is more important to god than you prospering in health and wealth?’ Listen to the prayer of the aged apostle John, “I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers” (3 Jn 2).

Dear Christian, why don’t you join the great apostle Paul and say, “Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus”. God has called you to be a winner in your race, following the Lord Jesus Christ. The greatest encouragement is that all who run diligently will be winners. In God’s kingdom there are no losers if only you keep running! Don’t look back! Forget about all your faults, failures and the lapses that might have come in your life. With God, only your future counts. He wants you to make the best of it. He wants you to plan for your todays and tomorrows. God wants you to climb up with eagles’ wings to higher heights and reach nearer to Him! That’s all that matters to Him. In the end that’s all that will matter to you too!

The only way you can get closer to God is through reading and meditating on His Word and through times of secret prayer! Whether you have never been a regular reader of the Bible or you read only occasionally, forget the past. Make a new start. Most Christians have never read through the whole Bible once! Once I was cleaning up our store in the surgery. Guess what I found: an old certificate of passing my medical degree! Did I become a doctor without reading my text books? Dear believer, don’t you think that you as a Christian ought to read your Bible once atleast?

Pray and practise with me: Dear Lord, help me read through Your Word once. All I have to do is to take 20 minutes to read three chapters a day! Two chapters from the Old and one from the New Testament. Lord, help me to make time to do it and not to give up. Amen.