A Short Exhortation for 2025 Bible Habits

of Revelation this morning. And time and time again, Jesus is saying in the book of Revelation, these words are true and trustworthy.

These words are true and trustworthy. And of course, that applies not only to the book of Revelation, but the entire 66 books of the

Bible. I've been benefited in my life from reading systematic theologies, from reading church history, from reading biographies, from reading commentaries.

I think all of those things, actually, I think Christians should be reading all of those things. And I think all of those things are actually essential and pivotal to a healthy life as a

Christian, as a church body, all those things matter. But there is nothing more consequential in your reading than the word of God.

Would to God that we would read the Bible. I think about Charles Spurgeon, what he said of John Bunyan.

Charles Spurgeon said of John Bunyan, prick him anywhere and he bleeds bibling. I'm not seeing that today.

Are you? I'm seeing a lot of fights on social media. I'm seeing a lot of, between Christians, I'm seeing a lot of pontifications about Thomas Aquinas or Van Till or these things.

And I'm not saying those things are not important, but I am saying this, I'm not seeing the

Bible ooze out of us. And that's what I would like to see. And I'll start right here. I'll start right here in my own life.

I'd like to see more Bible coming out of me. I'd like people to be able to say of me, you prick him anywhere and he bleeds bibling.

So can you consider your habits with the Bible in 2025? There's lots of plans out there.

It's not necessarily you have to get through the Bible in a year, although I do advocate that, but it's just as simple as David Miller used to say, take up, begin reading in Genesis 1 .1,

read wherever you finish the next day, pick up and read some more until you've made it through the whole

Bible. And let us be people who are in the book every single day in 2025.

Open the word of God. Let it speak to you. Let it read you. Let it change you.

Not so much mastering it. Let it master you submit to it. Let it change your life.