Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Friday, April 11, 2014

Chronological Bible Reading Tips To Help You Grow Into A Good Christian

By Anita Ortega


Reading the Bible can help a Christian know more about God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the concepts of life and death, life now and life to come. However, not many people are accustomed to the habit of chronological Bible reading, leave alone having a yearly plan to read from Genesis all the way through Revelation. This leaves everyone with the question as to whether it is possible to read the whole book or not.

Always pray to God to give a passion for His word and fill you with the hunger to know more about whom He is and his plan for the world. Through studying His word, you get to understand His real nature and what He wants the world to be. Ask Him to guide you through your reading plan so that you do not waste time mixing his word with newspapers and novels in your library.

Join a Biblical studies class in your local Church. There so many reading guides that your pastor will give you during this session, which will help you to become a good reader of the word of God. Again, this is a good time to reflect on how much you can read from the scriptures you will be given to read at your own time when at home.

Start by praying every morning when you wake up. You can spend an hour or two for devotion either alone or with your whole family or go to a nearby church if you live around one. Ask God to fill you with the zeal to read His word on a regular basis so that you get to know about Him.

Make it your habit to read the scriptures given to you during the service. There are instances where your pastor will ask you to take some scriptures and read the at home. This is helpful as it will enable you to not only build passion for Bible reading but also become a regular reader with an understanding o f the essence of the word of God.

Join a Bible studies class and become a full time member so that you train how to read the word of God. This class is different from the normal Sunday service in the sense that rather than the pastor feeding you with the Gospel of the Kingdom of heaven, he or she teaches you how you can spend time with God by reading his word and praying to Him when at home, workstation or office.

Pray always. Pray when before you read the word of God and after reading it. This will help you to not only develop a passion for the scriptures but also have the zeal to read it more and more.

Go to the local bookshop and buy a bible study guide once you have done and mastered all of the above. A Bible studies guide is a book, which has a suitable plan that can help you read the whole book within a year. If anything, it is the mother plan of reading the Bible.




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