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Saturday, June 30, 2007

Narnia V. The Bible – Which Is More To My Interest?

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I was out in the garden with the girls yesterday morning, and I was thinking about the next Narnia book I was going to be reading for Sylvia’s Narnia Quiz Contest, and for my own pleasure. Then I thought, “What about the 90-Day Bible reading Challenge Amanda, Jocelyn and I are doing?”

I started it two days after they did because I didn’t know they were doing it, but I have not been faithful in reading the 12 chapters a day that I am supposed to read to read the Bible in 90 days. I tried to think of why I hadn’t been reading it. I remembered the reason: I was much more interested in C.S. Lewis’s books than I was in reading God’s books.

On Wednesday night, I came downstairs to read. I can’t read when people are talking and when the TV is on, so that was why I came downstairs to read. I sat on the couch and started to read the last of the Narnia book, “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, I was reading. After I was done, I felt a pang of guilt for not reading the Bible like I was supposed to and reading the Narnia book instead, which is of no importance whatsoever to God, except that I am happy in reading it. He would rather I read His Word than read about magic wardrobes and going to the end of the world in a ship.

Yesterday morning I got up around 10, (not a good time to get for me because that’s my sleepiest time), dragged myself out of bed, went downstairs with Mom and the little boys, and went to the bathroom with them. I had to go down to the barn to feed Pemberley with Eric, who stays in the barn all the time now. Then I saw the girls’ were out in the garden weeding, so I decided to join them.

I, then, remembered that I hadn’t read my Bible yesterday either. I thought to myself, “I won’t finish the Bible in 90 days, maybe in a 100 days, if that. Well, I’ll read like crazy today! I’ll catch up to where I need to be.” But I didn’t get my Bible out ‘til I cleaned the kitchen and wrote in my journal a little and cleaned off my dresser. The reason for that was it slipped my mind when I had to take Blonde out. That is just what Satan wanted, me to forget to read God’s Word.

I don’t know why I am even reading the Narnia books actually. C.S. Lewis made it full of magic, and I don’t believe at all in magic, except in the miracles of Jesus, and they weren’t really magic. I think I only got to reading them because Eric got the “Magician’s Nephew” book (which is the first one) on CD’s to listen to, and he told me that I should read them because he was very excited about it. So when I had read the book, I had to read the next book and then you know, you have to read the next one to know what happens.

Well, I read fifteen chapters of the Bible yesterday Thursday afternoon. I am a very slow reader, so it took my about two hours to read that much, plus I had interruptions. I read four chapters yesterday morning when I got up at 7:30. I didn’t finish yesterday’s reading. But I think that it’s better to take the time to read it then to take just a few minutes and read a little of it, not knowing what is going on, getting confused because you’re reading it little by little, and then you don’t understand it at all.

I could most likely tell you almost anything about the Chronicles of Narnia books if you quizzed me on them right now, but I can’t do that with the Bible. When you can’t do that with the Word of God, and you can with the Narnia books, then there’s something wrong there. I should be reading more of the Bible than the Narnia books. I need to read more of the Bible than of the Narnia book so I can know the Word of God instead of the Word of C.S. Lewis! Don’t you agree? Well, that is all for now! If you want to, stop over at my HomeSteadBlog and read my latest ‘country’ post, you might find interesting, but be sure to let me know you were there!

Sincerely,
Lady Rachel

Ps. The Suarzs’ are coming tonight! I’m soooo excited about them coming! Sorry, the link button would not work for me, but if you would still like to enter in Sylvia's contest, go to her blog and look for the entry about it. The deadline is July 8, so you still have some time!

I hope you have enjoyed reading the thoughts of a thirteen-year-old girl from the country."You can do all things through CHRIST who strengthens you!" Philippians 4:13

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Saturday, June 30, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Bluejane

I think almost every one is like that.
I have been having some second doughts on the challange too.
I wake up early to read it, and wakeing up early has started to ware me down, but I'm not going to give up!

Bluejane