Tony’s Blog

I love the new year, because it gives me another time to start over.  I love starting over with new goals, new dreams of what God may do.  I make new goals every year…and yes, some fall by the wayside very quickly but others endure and I am the better for it.  For example last year I set a goal of reading through the Bible in 90 days.  Well, when all was said and done I didn’t achieve my goal in the strict sense.  It took me about 100 days.  The key thing for me is that I would probably not have read the Bible through if I hadn’t set the outlandish goal of doing it in 90 days to begin with.

I tend to look at every goal that I make to enhance my spiritual life as a way of digging my well before I am thirsty.  The fact is that my soul is far more thirsty for the Great things of God than I am consciencely aware of.  SO, when  I read the Bible through last year there were parts of my soul that were being nourished that I had no idea were wasting away.  God was also showing me things about Himself that I needed to understand…not for that moment…but for this one that I’m in right now.  I’m thankful that I did some extra “well’ digging last year.

SO, what about this year?  I have a digging plan for this year as well.  I am reading through proverbs and psalms.  I am reading a chapter a day in both books and I will do this for the first 5 months of the year, which allows me to read proverbs 5 times and psalms once.  I am reading these chapters each day in 4 different versions…why?…you are wondering.  Because I know my soul is thirsty and I need to saturate my heart and mind with truth and longing for God.  I am also planning to read the Bible through again in 90 days…okay, probably 100 days, after I do the proverbs and psalms plan.

It isn’t much, but it keeps me focusing in the right direction.

Because there is nothing better than God in Christ.

Keep digging,

Tony