Leviticus 20:22-22:16 Mark 9:1-29 Psalm 43:1-5 Proverbs 10:18 Yesterday I talked about how cool it was that God kept saying "I'm the Lord your God" at the end of different rules like He was answering the unspoken "but why?" But today as I read I thought about how obvious to Moses it all was, he would never ask "but why?" because he's experiencing God on Mount Sinai...he knows He's the Lord. It's almost like those "I am the Lord your God" statements are there to simply remind

Leviticus 19:1-20:21 Mark 8:11-38 Psalm 42:1-11 Proverbs 10:17 There's a lot I find confusing about the Law. There are rules and practices that don't make sense to me, and that's okay because I can trust that God knows better. At least I can trust that as I look back on the Old Testament and can see the bigger picture now. But even in all the weird and sometimes seemingly harsh rules God lays out, He does it all because He loves us. Now we don't live under the Old Testament L

Leviticus 16:29-18:30 Mark 7:24-8:10 Psalm 41:1-13 Proverbs 10:15-16 I'm going to detour a little bit today from anything I specifically read in the Bible...it's kind of a reflection...my thinking out loud about my day and what has been a theme in a lot of my posts. Reading the Bible 159 days in a row has changed a lot of my perspective. I've become more focused than ever on Jesus, I've become entirely more convinced that He is the only thing that matters. I've been convicted

Leviticus 15:1-16:28 Mark 7:1-23 Psalm 40:11-17 Proverbs 10:13-14 I don't have a lot to say about the reading today, I feel affected by the reading but just don't have much to say, except that I will echo David's prayer in Psalm 40. "May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who long for Your saving help always say, 'The Lord is great!'" Psalm 40:16 Lord Jesus, there are people who need to cry out to You. There are people who need You. There are people who kn

Leviticus 14:1-57 Mark 6:30-56 Psalm 40:1-10 Proverbs 10:11-12 Today again I return to the idea that "nothing is impossible." Jesus expects his disciples to know this. When they see a crowd of 5,000 men not including women and children Jesus expects them to understand that He can miraculously feed them all with just five loaves of bread and two fish. He tells them to feed the people! Jesus walks on water in front of them and calms the storm too. Nothing is impossible! And Jes

Leviticus 13:1-59 Mark 6:1-29 Psalm 39:1-13 Proverbs 10:10 Reading about the mission Jesus gave the disciples in Mark reminded me a lot about what I've already been thinking about lately. Today I thought a lot about Billy Graham who passed away yesterday in his old age. I had never listened to his sermons before or anything, I just knew he was a very famous evangelist. But I did watch some videos of him today and I observed his confidence in the truth of Jesus Christ and the

Leviticus 11:1-12:8 Mark 5:21-43 Psalm 38:1-22 Proverbs 10:8-9 Yep, the Bible talks about periods. And while I'm not afraid of that topic, obviously, I did find it rather unsettling today. I had to pause in the reading when I finished Leviticus today. I already found it confusing that it said women are unclean on their monthly periods, then I found it upsetting it said women are unclean after giving birth, but then I was over-the-top confused when it said women are twice as u

Leviticus 9:7-10:20 Mark 4:26-5:20 Psalm 37:30-40 Proverbs 10:6-7 Today was a good day. Work wasn't too crazy, it was manageable compared to the Monday holiday yesterday. When I got home I had the energy to do a lot of things I needed/wanted to do including cooking, studying, and very meticulous songwriting. But it was right before I went to read this evening that a lot of the harder things that happened today started to weigh on me. For example, I remembered a confrontation

Leviticus 7:28-9:6 Mark 3:31-4:25 Psalm 37:12-29 Proverbs 10:5 Today was an unusual day for me. I had a different shift at work that threw my routine. I tried to blog in the morning and that didn't happen, so here I am in my usual position blogging right before bed. But now I'm even especially tired just because of the different routine. The other odd thing about today's routine was that I read the reading throughout the day. I read Leviticus in the morning, Mark on my lunch

Leviticus 6:1-7:27 Mark 3:7-30 Psalm 37:1-11 Proverbs 10:3-4 Psalm 37 verse 4 are words to stitch on a pillow...and people definitely have. I've seen that verse everywhere, let me tell you. "Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart." I've seen that verse tattooed, I've seen that verse on the mirror when someone is getting ready in the morning, I've seen it on bulletin boards, in pretty chalk writing...it's everywhere. And I don't know what ever