Mark's Notebook


	And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order to the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce. - Soren Kierkegaard

Bible Reading Plan Progress

Wednesday 1 February 2006, 7:10 pm
Keywords: Christian Topics

A while back I mentioned that I've started a plan for reading the Bible through in about ten months.

I started reading the New American Standard Bible around the first of December. So far, I should be 62 chapters (2 months) into each "track." (You have to look at the Bible reading plan page to understand about the "tracks.")

On Track 1, I've read 149 chapters, from Genesis 1 through Numbers 32. This puts me about 87 chapters ahead on Track 1.

On Track 2, I've read 116 chapters, from 1 Chronicles through Esther, then moved on to read Isaiah chapters 1 through 18. This puts me about 54 chapters ahead on Track 2.

On Track 3, I've read Psalms 1 through 49. These 49 chapters put me about 13 chapters behind the 62 chapters I should have read. One reason why I'm behind is that if I miss a day, I like to make it up the next day. But the Psalms are so personal and intense that I prefer not to read more than one per day. Also, I'm not too worried about falling a little behind here because Tracks 3 and 4 are shorter than the other tracks.

On Track 4, I've read all of Matthew and Romans, and the first nine chapters of 1 Corinthians. This is 53 chapters and it puts me nine chapters behind on this track. The reason I've fallen behind on this track is I usually read this track last, and if I'm too tired I might not get to it at all. Again, I'm not too worried about falling behind on this track because it is a shorter track. Also, I can read the Gospels more quickly than the epistles, because the Gospels have a little more action. I should start making up lost time when I get to the book of Mark.

Overall, I've read 367 chapters, or about 30 percent of the entire Bible (which is 1189 chapters total). This is about six chapters per day. If I continue at this pace, I should finish the Bible in about seven months, or at the end of June.

I've usually been reading late at night, before I go to sleep, and sometimes after my wife has gone to sleep. I haven't yet decided whether that's a good strategy, because I'm often very tired. But I think I'm learning a lot. And I'm noticing lots of things that I missed the last time I read the Bible through.

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