I came across an article by Noel Piper at Desiring God on a Bible reading method that actually helped her make it through the entire Bible after years of well-intentioned beginnings.

Although I won’t be following her method this year I think there’s wisdom in what she has written and that her experience may prove useful to those of us who struggle to read through the entire Bible each year.

One of the creative ideas Noel had was to start reading somewhere other than Genesis.

I started in Hosea and read to the end of the Old Testament. I knew what had become of my efforts before when I had started quite literally, “in the beginning.” I also knew there were chunks of the minor prophets I had never laid eyes on. There’s something intriguing about unknown territory.

In addition she read as much or as little as she was able to each day rather than reading a required number of chapters.

I didn’t divide the Bible into 365 equal segments. Sufficient to the day was the amount I could make time for. I have discovered when using daily reading guides that nothing kills my incentive like falling a few days behind and feeling under pressure to “catch up.”

You can read the entire article here if you’re interested.

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