Daisy on the weekends

Weekend is approaching and I just wanted to share this photo with you. Hopefully this weekend I will go sailing or swimming, I really miss the water. But looking outside today it doesn’t look like the weather will be in my favour….Hopefully tomorrow will have the sun shining and the water beckoning.

One of the nights coming up I will be going to see my brother in-laws band, it is a good band with some really jazzy and bluesy tunes with a brass section too. I will meet with all the hubby’s side of the family and share some good conversation and fresh oysters with those who like them!!! I can’t wait for those oysters I love his side of the family dearly and I can honestly say that I love them as much as mine…they are just great, I am really blessed when I think about it.

One thing that I want to leave you with is something that I thought about last night just before I fell asleep. You know how it is… you have the perfect words to write during this dreary slumbering time between wake and sleep, it comes to you and you think to yourself I must remember that when I come to my blog tomorrow. When it comes down to actually writing it the words can come out all wrong. So, here goes….please bare with me for a moment.

I was thinking about man’s interpretation of things. All the debates about what this means or what that means concerning the Word of God. A lot of people read a lot about the bible and what it means. They may even be extremely well read in exegetical or eisegetical critique and all sorts of theory’s and philosophy’s and look through the many different lenses of understanding. I can’t imagine how many library’s it would take to fill with books that have been written about subjects such as the Word of God. One can only fathom.

Lot’s of books have been read about the bible right!

I have been one of those people and I remember going to a friends house about 7 years ago and I was talking about the latest book that I had read. I asked her, had she read such and such a book. She replied ‘no’. I said ‘Oh, it is really good perhaps you would like to read it?’ She said to me ‘not really’, I was taken aback slightly so I asked ‘Why?’

She gets up from the dining room table and walks over to her bookcase. Grabs a big heavy old book that looked well read. With a big smile on her face, she places the book rather firmly in the middle of the table for all to see and says…‘I’m getting back to this’!

It was the bible.

Wow, what a challenge. I will never forget it and for that I am thankful to her. I am not sure if she knows how much that made an impact on me. I thought to myself - ‘yeah… people do read about the bible’ and thinking more on it… I personally have not met many people who have read the whole thing. I was challenged greatly. So I made up my mind (after much personal deliberation) that I was going to read it from beginning to the end - from Genesis with the many lists of all the begets and begats to Revelation… and yes I even read Leviticus (I quite like that book actually) with all the strange laws that I just don’t fully understand.

I loved the year that it took me to read it. Bit by bit - chapter by chapter. I was challenged in ways that I still have difficutly with. And if I don’t understand things that have been written, then that doesn’t mean that it is not so, it just means that it is my lack of understanding.

Lately I am feeling that same challenge again. And I know God wants me to read the whole thing again. Question is ‘will this blog hold me accountable, will it hold me to such a challenge I wonder?’ It is a major task and such a huge commitment - that I don’t deny.

I wonder how many of you have felt this same God challenge you this way. I know I would not be the only one. Even with me writing this, it is difficult for me because I know and understand the obedience needed for such a task. The last time I did this I did it with my dad, we followed the same books and chapters throughout the year. We both completed it by New Years Eve. Oh how happy I felt knowing that I had done what I had set out to do. How grateful that God helped me to do it. Dad has done it a number of times… perhaps I will ask him to do it with me again. We would make phone calls to each other and talk about what we have just learnt or if we were slack and handn’t done that days reading we would encourage each other, or even ask questions of each other concerning the more difficult passages. What an experience to have with your father. Better still what an experience to have with your Father God. Ironic isn’t it.

So, if you are one of those people who have read a lot about the bible but have not read the bible right through, then how about you see what God actually says about His Word. Better to get it straight from the sourcre don’t you think.

The new year is approaching… and I have to pray-fully consider this post and what I am actually going to do about it myself as this is as much a challenge for myself as it may be for you… am I going to commit and be obedient… or not??? That is the question.

I will let you know the answer in due course.