Silly, you know that it is! Did you come here to reprimand me? 
I saw this daily devotion in Streams in The Desert, By Mrs. Charles Cowman and I wanted to share it with you along with a thought. I think we get all excited about reading the Bible through in a year, some strive for more than that. I fear that if we cannot live up to our own expectations, we tend to feel that we have failed and give up altogether. I would like to encourage those who may not have a daily schedule of reading God's Word, to try with at least a verse a day and prayer to ask God to give you a hunger and thirst for His Word. Malohaut is doing a thread on Swordsmanship and he speaks about taking baby steps. I believe that is a wonderful idea for those who may not read the Bible daily, too. God will richly bless you for your effort.
His delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. Psalm 1:2
A man who loves the Word of God - a man who dwells upon what it says - a man who keeps a little text in his mind to think about as he is walking on his way, and who mediates upon it day and night - "whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." If you can find a man who carries out this direction and doesn't prosper, you can doubt the inspiration of the first Psalm; but find the man first. J.H.T.
When John Wanamaker, the merchant prince, was eleven years old, he purchased a Bible. In later years he said of this purchase: "I have, of course, made large purchases of property in my time, involving millions of dollars, but it was as a boy in the county, at the age of eleven years, that I made the greatest purchase. In a little mission Sunday school I bought a small red leather Bible for $2.75, which I paid for in small installments. Looking back over my life, I see that the little red Book was the foundation on which my life has been built, and the thing which has made possible all that has counted in my life. I know now that it was the greatest investment and the most important and far-reaching purchase I have ever made.
Last eve I passed beside a blacksmith's door,
And heard the anvil ring the versper chime;
Then looking in, I saw upon the floor
Old hammers, worn with beating years of time.
"How many anvils have you had," said I,
"To wear and batter all these hammers so?"
"Just one," said he, and then, with a twinkling eye,
"The anvil wears the hammers out, you know."
And so, thought I, the anvil of God's Word,
For ages skeptic blows have beat upon;
Yet, though the noise of falling blows was heard,
The anvil is unharmed - the hammers gone. Unknown
I saw this daily devotion in Streams in The Desert, By Mrs. Charles Cowman and I wanted to share it with you along with a thought. I think we get all excited about reading the Bible through in a year, some strive for more than that. I fear that if we cannot live up to our own expectations, we tend to feel that we have failed and give up altogether. I would like to encourage those who may not have a daily schedule of reading God's Word, to try with at least a verse a day and prayer to ask God to give you a hunger and thirst for His Word. Malohaut is doing a thread on Swordsmanship and he speaks about taking baby steps. I believe that is a wonderful idea for those who may not read the Bible daily, too. God will richly bless you for your effort.
His delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. Psalm 1:2
A man who loves the Word of God - a man who dwells upon what it says - a man who keeps a little text in his mind to think about as he is walking on his way, and who mediates upon it day and night - "whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." If you can find a man who carries out this direction and doesn't prosper, you can doubt the inspiration of the first Psalm; but find the man first. J.H.T.
When John Wanamaker, the merchant prince, was eleven years old, he purchased a Bible. In later years he said of this purchase: "I have, of course, made large purchases of property in my time, involving millions of dollars, but it was as a boy in the county, at the age of eleven years, that I made the greatest purchase. In a little mission Sunday school I bought a small red leather Bible for $2.75, which I paid for in small installments. Looking back over my life, I see that the little red Book was the foundation on which my life has been built, and the thing which has made possible all that has counted in my life. I know now that it was the greatest investment and the most important and far-reaching purchase I have ever made.
Last eve I passed beside a blacksmith's door,
And heard the anvil ring the versper chime;
Then looking in, I saw upon the floor
Old hammers, worn with beating years of time.
"How many anvils have you had," said I,
"To wear and batter all these hammers so?"
"Just one," said he, and then, with a twinkling eye,
"The anvil wears the hammers out, you know."
And so, thought I, the anvil of God's Word,
For ages skeptic blows have beat upon;
Yet, though the noise of falling blows was heard,
The anvil is unharmed - the hammers gone. Unknown
