Day 366

Happy Leap Year!

Wisdom Psalm / Proverb

New Testament Matthew 1:1–Revelation 22:21

Old Testament Genesis 1:1–Malachi 4:6

Introduction

I want to encourage you to keep going in the challenge to read the whole Bible this year. Rick Warren has written that ‘reading the Bible generates life, it produces change, it heals hurts, it builds character, it transforms circumstances, it imparts joy, it overcomes adversity, it defeats temptation, it infuses hope, it releases power, it cleanses the mind’. I hope and pray that reading the Bible every day for a year brings much benefit to your life, just as it has done to mine.

Wisdom

Psalm / Proverb

Commentary

1. Keep delighting and meditating on God’s words

‘Blessed is the one
who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers,
but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
and who meditates on his law day and night.
That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither –
whatever they do prospers’ (Psalm 1:1–3)

New Testament

Matthew 1:1–Revelation 22:21

Commentary

2. Keep focused on Jesus as you read

‘You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me’ (John 5:39).

Old Testament

Genesis 1:1–Malachi 4:6

Commentary

3. Keep putting God’s word into practice

‘Now, Israel, hear the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you’ (Deuteronomy 4:1–2).