Use this Unexpected Down Time to Read the Bible!
Of all the things you hear people talking about doing now that they are at home and looking for things to occupy their time-you don’t hear many say,
“Now I have more time to spend seriously reading the Bible”. And yet, that’s the one activity that would benefit them most.
Isaiah 34:16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read:
Revelation 1:3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
1 Timothy 4:15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
Read
the Bible! Study the Bible! Meditate on the things the Bible says! And if you do, you may look back upon this strange down time as the best thing that ever happened to you.
Use this Unexpected Down Time to Read the Bible!
Psalms 28:1-9 (KJV) Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.