2019 Daddy

This guy, Daddy, and Mother lived with us in the final months of his illness. One day I asked him exactly how many times he had read through his Bible. He answered that since retirement he had read it through twelve times.

And that got me to thinking—I better get started.

January of 2017 I began my second read-through of the Bible. But since David had given Mike Jon Courson’s Commentaries I would reference a topic every now and again to learn more.

I was so intrigued with the background  

and the in-depth amplification that in 2018 I resolved to read through the Old Testament while also reading all of the companion comments from the Commentary at the same time. Then in 2019 I began the New Testament the very same way.

Mornings with God and coffee are now my favorite way for starting my day. For the first time in my life I can say that I am a student of the Bible.

I put my Lord on in baptism when I was ten and we were living in Oregon. I took Bible Study credit in HIgh School growing up in Dallas and then attended a Abilene Christian University where we were required to take Bible.

And of course all of my life I have benefited from
Sunday morning sermons most recently for 34 years now with the best Rabbi ever, Ronnie Norman.

So maybe I just had to get old or perhaps God had to take my heart to Heaven the way he did when I kissed Daddy goodbye— because now I am enjoying intimacy with my creator like never before.

I really like what this commitment is doing for me personally. I feel “transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit” (2 Cor. 3:18, NIV). And that leads to “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control” (Gal. 5:22, NIV).