“Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.” – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“I would to God that we ministers kept more closely to the grand old Book. We should be instructive preachers if we did so, even if we were ignorant of “modern thought,” and were not “abreast of the times.” I warrant you we should be leagues ahead of our times if we kept closely to the Word of God. As for you, my brothers and sisters, who have not to preach, the best food for you is the Word of God itself. Sermons and books are well enough, but streams that run for a long distance above ground gradually gather for themselves somewhat of the soil through which they flow, and they lose the cool freshness with which they started from the spring head. Truth is sweetest where it breaks from the smitten Rock, for at its first gush it has lost none of its heavenliness and vitality. It is always best to drink at the well and not from the tank. You shall find that reading the Word of God for yourselves, reading it rather than notes upon it, is the surest way of growing m grace. Drink of the unadulterated milk of the Word of God, and not of the skim milk, or the milk and water of man’s word.“
In his sermon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, C.H. Spurgeon pleaded for his congregation to draw from the well of scripture daily but was careful to warn his church of the dangers of skimming the words rather than having them illuminated in their own lives by the Author.
Please see the chart below for a daily chronological reading of the Bible, but be sure to heed Spurgeon’s warning. Pray before reading the words on the pages, pray while reading the passages, and then pray after. While reading, meditate on the spiritual insights of each passage and pray that God would show Christ, His Son, in the appropriate ways. When completed with each day, rather than checking off a box, pray that God would use what you have read to change how you live out the day.
