“You can do it!” it says at the top on one of the last pages of the Slimline Edition Holy Bible I received for my last birthday. (New Living Translation)

Reading that reminds me of the time when I was not able to do it.

Underneath “You can do it!” is a picture of The One Year Bible. (NLT) It says there also “The entire New Living Translation arranged in 365 daily readings.” On one of the first pages of the Slimline Edition Holy Bible I find also a One Year Bible Reading Plan.

What do I mean by “that reminds me of the time when I was not able to do it?”

I could say quite a bit about that time, but here is the summary: I was not able to read the Bible  systematically, from cover to cover, from Genesis to Revelation. We read books from the beginning to the end, don’t we?

But I am also reminded of the time when I learned to read the Bible from cover to cover, every word, and there was one year when I read the Bible twice from cover to cover, from Genesis to Revelation, every word.

In his book HUNGRY FOR GOD Ralf Martin writes in the last chapter of his book about carrying things out in our own strength and depending on the power of God to carry things out.

I don’t know if I stopped reading the Bible systematically in my own strength and started depending on the power of God; but I know that a miracle happened in my reading of the Bible. It can also happen in your life, if it has not happened already. Praise the Lord!