Day 1

I've been wanting to read the bible in it's entirety from cover to cover for awhile now and I think God used Pastor Jae's sermon today to push me to actually follow through with this. I am 100% positive that this would be impossible for me to do without an actual plan or schedule to follow so I found a read the bible in 1 year study tool on christianity.com (thanks moose) to help me with that. Also, there are two reasons that I'm creating a blog to help me with this. 1st reason is so I can jot down notes/insights/random thoughts from my readings. This should hopefully prevent me from just skimming and not really absorbing anything. 2nd reason is so that my close friends/family can keep me accountable and keep track of my progress. God, please don't let me fail after a week...

Nov 1: Gen 1-4
I must have read Genesis a million times and different things pop out to me each time. One verse that caught my attention is when God is speaking to Cain when he's sulking about his offering not being favored. God explains to him that sin "desires to have you, but you must master it." Well we all know how that one turned out... It just goes to show how dangerous sin really is. We all have different sins that we struggle with the most. One of mine for a long time has been laziness, which prevents me from spending more time with God. When I get home, I just want to relax and watch the rangers play on my nice 40 inch tv or just lay around doing nothing. To add to that, last week I started to help my monster of an 8 year old cousin with homework after work, which i'm certain is more stressful than my full day of work. BUT, God is still good. Pastor Jae's sermon today, Shin bringing up that we should start writing blogs, it all just kinda clicked. God answered two of my prayer requests to help me read the bible more and to stop being so damn lazy by showing me a plan that could actually work. Sometimes we just have to listen.