One thing that amused me was the choice of a devotional book. You know I read Streams in the Desert this year. I picked that book because I happened to have several copies I'd purchased on clearance, and it seemed a logical choice. I had absolutely no idea it was much more a divine choice than a logical choice.
But I told myself, as we approached the end of the year, I needed to be selective about next year's devo book. I determined to find the happiest, cheeriest, most uplifting possible book in an attempt to set the course of a new year!
Of course I say that in joking. I want to choose the book GOD wants me to read. It would be great if the book He chose just so happened to be cheery and uplifting, but whatever He wanted!
Earlier this month, I went Christmas shopping with my mom, and we ended up at a little Christian bookstore in Kokomo. I perused the devotional shelf, which really didn't have many choices on it. I picked up one MASSIVE book (y'all, I'm not kidding...it has over 1000 pages!) called Sparkling Gems from the Greek.
I didn't buy the book...but it stuck in my mind. A few days later, I told one of my work buddies about it. (She, incidentally, also read Streams this year!) She loved the idea of the book and now we're going to be devo buddies for a second year.
This book has a word study for every day of the year and I know some of you are saying snoozer!!!! right now, but I'm really excited about it. It appears to be really easy to understand and I think it will be great for me to learn and grow in the Word in a new way!
So...after tomorrow, you're home free from hearing about Streams for a while. But get ready! You're about to hear some GREEK!
4 comments:
Oh wow, that does sound interesting! I may have to go pick that up too.
Oh you so should. We would have great discussions about it. May I suggest that you also pay for it when you pick it up? I'm not sure they allow IM in the big house.
1000 pages? EEEK. I picked out a 550-page young adult book. I couldn't figure out how anyone ever would've thought that was a good idea. Once I started reading, though, I realized it was two books in one.
One of my all-time favorite books, The Stand, was a whopper. I can't remember how many pages originally but I thought it was something like 1000.
Stephanie - if it weren't a day by day reading, you can know I couldn't handle that many pages either!!
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