You Gotta Reread It

What Nobody Told Me About Walking with Christ

This is my dog right now writing this to you guys because I told him to hold it down for me. He's doing his best, bless his heart, but between you and me, his spelling is terrible, and he keeps trying to sniff the screen.

Lately, I became overwhelmed by everything going on in the world and my life, so I just stopped writing for a minute so I could live. I needed a moment to think, breathe, and reason and now I'm back :)

So, siblings in Christ, here's what I want to tell you today that I wish somebody just would have told me flat out like this. I'm gonna make it plain: You can't just read the Bible one time, friend, and be good.

I used to think you could. I thought once you finally read most of it or all of it, you're good—now you can say you read it. But here's the thing: because of memory, retention, and application—which is pretty much the recipe to actual consistency in Christ—you gotta reread it, friend. You gotta reread it.

Breaking Free from Secondhand Faith

I'm gonna hold your hand when I say this: Walk out of that worldly mentality that, "I've read the Bible one time when I was about seven, eight, nine, ten years old. Grandmama told me about the Bible. She read it with me a few times before when I was about twelve, thirteen, fourteen. Pastor told me what's in the Bible."

And walk into the Word for YOURSELF!

If you are a believer of Jesus Christ you HAVE TO read this same book over and over again for the rest of your life.

The Reality of Repetition

Now, I know usually you can read a book one time and that's enough. You may revisit it a few times, but you certainly don't have to read it over and over again for the rest of your life.

Full transparency, I was NOT one of them that really enjoy rereading books. I really love the thrill of reading it for the first time when the information is new and fresh and I never read it before. And then if I reread it again, I'm going to fast-forward to the section that I want to refresh myself with, not necessarily reread the whole thing from cover to cover. I wasn't that girl!

And so, it took a minute for it to really, really click, like, "Oh. I literally have to embrace repetition to stay in Christ."

And the thing is, if I don't reread this Word over and over again every day for the rest of my life, guaranteed I'm going to forget it, and I'm going to literally stop applying it to my life because the information ain't going to be fresh enough for me to do so.

But that's what makes the Bible different. Because the Spirit of God that is within you, the Holy Spirit, enlivens the scriptures inside of you. The only way for the Lord to work from the inside out is for you to deposit the mind of Christ—which is the Bible—into you by reading it. And then the Holy Spirit causes that character of Christ to be enlivened within you, and then you begin to display the behavior outwardly.

That's what transforms you into a baby version of Jesus Christ, you understand?

But why is repetition so crucial? What makes the Bible different from every book you've ever read? Part 2 is where I unpack it! See you in the next article.

Stay forever #lockedinChrist