Elijah,
- Nice to meet you! I love to meet new people. I saw today that you are not ashamed of Christ Jesus!
Reading God’s Word
I write out the bible. It helps me to NOT FORCE the learning and/or understanding. To first just reverence the word of God. And reading the WHOLE word of God. When I do find myself unable to write any further, because what’s on the page there, words that I have just written… I ask God to teach me what he’s wanting me to learn… and I get out my journal, and begin to write it out as a question, and then thoughts that come to me, as though I am talking to a father or mentor.
In the book>
How To Read The Bible For All Its Worth
Gordon Fee, and Douglas Stuart explain that the bible doesn’t mean what we want it to mean, nor what we think it means, but it means what God meant to say! Listening while reading.
I’m sorry to sound mysterious. I’m not trying to be. I simply want to tell you that God honours your reading his word, like he would a small child running up to him, and lifting up his arms to be picked up. God would only reach down and pick up such a precious one. So it is when you open the pages of the Bible to know him that created you. Tagalog? Is that your language, that you think in a read in? Then read in that one primarily. That’s the suggestion of this book, and then – they continue – when you want to look further into something that has caught your attention, you look at the same scripture in 2-3 other translations, including the Tagalog Bible translation. You can find all of these at a website like BibleGateway
or consult Bible Study helps like THE BLUE LETTER BIBLE. I have an app on my phone, that you can download from Google Play Store or iPhone App Store.
Running Down Vimy 