Last month we did #OTOctober — reading through the Old Testament (or at least portions of it) all month. It was fun seeing people share the books they were tackling, the verses that stood out, the new revelations that came.
I started in Deuteronomy and ended up jumping to Proverbs for a good chunk of the month. One verse in particular from Deuteronomy stood out to me all month:
Only take heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes saw and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. But make them known to your children and your children;s children. [Deut 4:9]
I realized how often we say things like, “The past is in the past” or “never look back” (I’m totally guilty of this).
And yet this verse is saying remember! As a storyteller, it struck me hard and it’s made me want to start writing down my personal story–more thorough than a journal–for the generations after me. I would love to have something like that from my grandmothers or great-grandmothers. I can see the power in that–the education and learning and growth that would come from seeing God work through the generations before me.
So that was probably the biggest thing I walked away with from #OTOctober. What about you?
Now…I thought that with November coming right after October, it just makes sense to do #NTNovember, right? 😉
Let’s pull from the same inspiration that came for Old Testament October and apply it to digging into the New Testament.
Does this mean you can ONLY read the New Testament? No.
Does this mean you have to read the whole New Testament? No.
The point is to read! To dig into the Word! To build up that knowledge of the Word and understand our Yahweh even more.
I personally think I’m going to start in the gospel of John and just…blast on until I end up at the end of November. I love how it naturally flows into Acts and then Romans and the epistles are such gold. *happy sigh*
What are you going to read for #NTNovember?
If you participated in #OTOctober…how did it go?
I was reading Ezekiel and underlining every time the words “and they shall know that I am the Lord” appear, which is nearly every chapter, if not several times a chapter. Most of the time, that phrase refers to God’s judgment on the wicked. But there was one verse that struck out to me where the passage talked about Israel’s restoration after wandering in wickedness and the phrase became “and you shall know that I am the Lord your God.” Just a few minor changes, but so precious!
so awesome what #OTOctober did for you!