Transform Your Day: Daily Habits That Matter

I usually wake up before the sun is up. I stumble downstairs (and when you live in a two story house, that’s something to be careful of). There, I make myself the first of many cups of coffee for the day.

Then I get my Bible from where I keep it on the stairs and read a couple of chapters. I underline or highlight what jumps out at me. I then spend the next half hour or so, wondering and praying about what it was that caught my attention.

Often times it’s something as simple as “Hey, I’m here with you” sort of reminder. Or it can reflect something going on in the world around me. Or it might just become something I need to hang onto.

People say the Bible doesn’t apply to us today. That it’s words died with the old ways of life.

I say they couldn’t be more wrong.

Our world has changed. We have the internet. We have airplanes. We have rockets to the Moon. We have modern medicine.

Yes, the world we live in has little to do with the world of two thousand years ago. Even seventy years ago.

But we haven’t changed.

We’re still the same creature we were thousands of years ago. We’re still prey to the same sorrows, temptations, and sins of yesterday. Maybe even more so.

And that makes God’s Word even more important to me.

I don’t know if I can call my daily Bible reading a habit as much something I have to do.

It’s a little like taking my net breath. Without it, I’ve got a problem.