Especially when I am trying to organise my Study which can get into such a mess very quickly and easily.
But also when I'm reading or trying to study something or preparing a talk for the kids at church.
You see I can see something that I have for a kids craft and then it reminds me of something else I saw on Pinterest and that means
- I just have to go look for that pin again
- and then I will just have a look to see if there are any other nice ideas on Pinterest
- and then I will just check my emails when I'm on the laptop
- and then a quick look into Facebook working on something for the kids in church
- and then my messages
And by STUDY I mean the verb not the room in my house that is always a mess.
Now all of this really spoke to me about this other type of
STUDY
I can sit down when I know I have a decent amount of time and do a Bible Study and I know that lots of you can too.
But frankly this is not every day.
I can in fact sit down when I don't have a lot of time and read a few verses each day and I know you can too.
But I was also very conscious of the fact that I was always lifting my ipad and checking emails or facebook in the morning before I was picking up my Bible to read those few verses or to sit and study for a while.
Yes I could have been lifting the iPad to read my Bible App first thing but I wasn't.
You see I was too easily distracted by those "dings" and little notifications that keep popping up to draw me back into the virtual world.
So last Thursday 30th October I felt challenged
to determine that I should make a change in my habits
- because Yes it was a habit I had sunk into.
I was coming to the end of a month and the end of a blogging challenge so why not go straight into another personal challenge and make a new habit of reading
at least one verse from the bible
before I do any lifting of the iPad for anything else.
Hence of course I needed to tell Fred about this because I need to have to be accountable to someone but then he is travelling a lot these days so I decided to take it to my friends on facebook as well.
On Friday 31st October I posted this so I would now be accountable to them as well.
And that is how I got myself started.
Each day since then I have got my bible and I'm reading through Proverbs 31 before I lift the iPad.
Sometimes one verse sometimes two verses and making a brief comment my Bible Reading Journal.
Then later when I eventually go to the computer I post the verse(s) and my notes on Facebook.
On the first day I even made a graphic of the first two verses (just because I like playing with graphics).
So I have now today reached verses 8 & 9 which is the end of the first section of Proverbs 31 and tomorrow I start unto the Virtuous Wife section.
I really do hope that by the end of the 30 days it will have become a habit and one that I will not find easy to break.
Why don't you think about this.
Are your Bible reading habits good?
You don't have to wait to start something like this at the beginning of a month - you could start today!
What chapter or Book of the Bible would you start this with?
Just remember
before you get drawn into all the other things in our 21st Century life.