Thus says the Lord: "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.
But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'" --Jeremiah 6:16
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Are You Redeeming The Time? There are countless distractions that keep Christians from doing what they're supposed to, and many of them seem harmless enough, maybe even noble. But when it comes to having good doctrine and proper biblical interpretation, there is simply no substitute for spending lots of time just reading and studying scripture. Yet, in a culture that's high-tech, fast paced, and multimedia driven, the decidedly low-tech process of just reading the bible only appeals to the sincere of heart.
We must be totally committed to reading our bibles; it all begins there. Ignore the people who don't interpret scripture properly and who therefore say that reading your bible a lot is unnecessary or excessive, and listen instead to what God commands in 2 Timothy 2:15 . . . "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth".