Quiet Times

God changed my life when He led me to read the Bible every night starting in 8th grade. Being a habitual person, I could get that habit going and keep at it.  Well, in college I switched to reading and praying in the morning. In the past year, I started reading the Chinese Bible before I go to bed, and the English Bible in the morning. It is my specific quiet time to be with God.

I was reading I Corinthians 8 this morning and stopped when it said knowledge puffs up. I thought I would like to blog about that. Well, turns out I blogged that in 2021 already. So, 5 years ago, I read I Corinthians 8. I have been reading the Bible daily for about 50 years. Many parts of the Bible I have  read countless times.

Now, I learned about a Quiet Time from the Navigators in college. It is more than reading the Bible. It is making space for God that includes he Bible and prayer and anything else you add. Now, I was meeting with God as an 8th grader, but formalizing an explicit thought like Quiet Time was still helpful.

Quiet Times Are So Needed

As an 8th grader and in high school and even college, the Bible was still new to me, and I was getting used to it.

Why do I still do it after reading it countless times?

I find the Christian life is like a river heading to the sea which represents Hell. We are all in the river.  If I swim with all my effort to go up stream, I can simply hold my own and not be washed down stream.  The world is brain washing me every day.  I need to push back by entering into God’s space to hear how He thinks, so I can, with God, swim against that stream and not be washed down to the sea in its way of thinking. I need to let God talk to me –also, to connect snd reconnect connect with God and open up to him in a peaceful place each day.