What book could you read over and over again?
I read the Holy Bible over and over again.
I did not grow up going to church every week. My parents did not have family Bible reading every evening. No adult was ever around to read the Bible on a regular basis. But my father did have a picture of Jesus on the wall. I remember asking him who it was, and then I would ask him to tell me about him.
I used go pray to Jesus as a child for him to save me, to give me a new mother -one that loved me.
I didn’t turn to Jesus and got saved until I was 41 years old. Then I began reading the Bible. I remember reading as thinking there was more of knowledge I didn’t know existed and how my life would have been different if I had only known these things in the Bible sooner.
Simply by living in the world, we accumulate a lot of stuff. If you consider an week of time, how may disparaging conversations you overhear? How many sarcastic remarks? How many tempting scenes we encounter on television, web searches etc… Frustrations, hurt feelings and many of the things that snatch our attention.
What surrounds us shapes us in many ways that are not always detected. Reading the Bible over and over gives me continual reminders of God’s meticulous works of Providence. It keeps me grounded. And allows the pure Word of God to saturate and purge my mind.
From Pity to Praise 