... have reverence for Christ in your hearts, and honor him as Lord. Be ready at all times to answer anyone who asks you to explain the hope you have in you I Peter 3:15 GNT

Thursday

Finding the Books in Your Bible

 When i received my first Bible, i'd kinda wanted thumb tabs so that i could find the books more easily.
  Within a few years,
our teachers had us industriously learning the order of the books, so no longer missed the tabs QUITE as much.  In early adulthood, i wondered if i really wanted the stick-on tabs, but decided not.
  When i bought another Bible, i considered getting one with the tabs, but decided it wasn't worth the extra cost.  But, even having pretty reliably memorized most of the books (Minor Prophets still give me a lot of trouble!), i wanted something to help get through all those books.
  These days, i use a bookmark method.  Some of my bookmarks are the kind with the list of all the books, but not all of them are. 
  i keep a bookmark at these places:
  • the beginning of Genesis
  • the end of Revelation (especially helpful when there's a lot of front- and back-matter)
  • the division of Old and New Testaments
  • Psalm 119 (a lot of people may choose Psalm 23)
  • somewhere in Isaiah or Jeremiah
  • II Corinthians 10
  • Hebrews 11
  Along with the memorization, these are enough to get me where i want to go.  Various different methods have helped over the years, and i've always got tons of extra bookmarks & other papers in my Bible, whichever one i'm using, but these work for me.  

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