Get Max McClean or some other gifted reader and go for a walk and listen to whole books of the Bible read at once. It helps for me to read or listen fast to grasp the overall messages and themes of Paul's letters or the flow of a narative. I think we too often pick one or two single verses for a "devotional reading" ("Our Daily Crumb") and try to pour meaning into small snippets when it is better to read whole books at a time.

I confess, I do not read the Bible everyday. I read it every other day or so and go for length and try not to stop until I finish some MAJOR section or a whole book. For instance, I get busy on Monday and Tuesday and just pray, on Wednesday and Thursday I finish all of Job, on Friday I am busy, on saturday I read Jude once in one version and one in another version, plus a commentary on Jude, On Sunday church, on Monday I am busy, and on Tuesday I read all of I Cor. and Wed all of 2 Corinthians. Right now I am working on reading John in another language and this is REALLY tough, so I have to go slow - but normally I like to read a lot quickly and only occasionally read a little very deeply.

Some might think this uneven, but it "mixes it up", keeps Scripture fresh and helps me to see overall themes and the "big picture."

Often when I walk I listen to Bible readings too. I am amazed at how much I hear anew when I hear it spoken rather than reading it verse by verse. Verss and chapters are good for finding addresses, but fosters a fragmentary mindsight and I often try to throw out these sometimes arbitary divisions and want to read to completion.

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