5 Easy Ways Any Christian Woman may Incorporate Reading the Bible into Her Busy Day

Reading the Bible daily is an important component of being a Christian woman, yet too many Christian women are simply letting the Bible lay on the table without thought, but let’s be clear, Christianity is not an identity marker, and as 2 Timothy 3:16 makes clear,

Now, for many Christian women, life is busy. You may have work. You may have children. You may have a household and errands, and, for many Christian women, there is also a smart phone addiction making you idle, lazy servants of the enemy, but

the time to serve the Lord is now! The time to make God a priority in your Life is now! Reading your Bible is only a small part of serving the Lord. Stop letting such a small component be such an obstacle, and make reading your Bible a priority and something that brings you even more joy than your smart phone, your children, and/or even your husband.

If this sounds preposterous to you, then you definitely need to read this post about idolatry of the heart.

Idolatry of the Heart

However, this post you are currently reading shares 5 easy ways that you may incorporate reading the Bible into your busy day so that you stop with the excuses, stop treating Christianity like an identity marker of your personhood, and stop putting the Bible on the back burner of your life.

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The excuses end today.

Let’s serve the Lord, and make Him the center of our life.

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5 Easy Ways to Incorporate Reading the Bible into your Busy Day

1. Audio

Now, there is a sharp distinction between listening to someone else read the Bible to you and reading the Bible yourself, BUT let’s say that you are a Christian woman who barely reads or that the most that you read is a caption or a meme that you scroll past on the internet while you lay there idly fingering a device.

If this is you, then you are unlikely to even have the cognitive capacity to read the Bible and certainly lack the capacity to comprehend that which you read. Your mind is simply unprepared for the cognitive labor that is reading. Your focus is unprepared, and your attention is unprimed.

Now, unless you relish in victimhood, the good news is that you are able to be literate and that you can train yourself to have the attention and the focus to read the Bible and to comprehend that which you read.

This, however, takes time, and if you are so out of the habit of reading, you are unlikely to enjoy reading the Bible and thus unlikely to reach for the Bible at all without feeling offense or perhaps even disdain.

It is worth considering that, if we accept that the Bible is the living word of God, then it follows that having someone else read it to us still, at least in part, imparts the Holy Spirit unto us to some degree. It may be in a less intimate and less conscious sense than if we were to read it ourselves, but listening to the Bible being read to you via audio is a good start, (and after having listened to the audio for some time, you are likely to want to read the Bible for yourself anyway.)

Hence, the first easy way to incorporate reading the Bible into your busy day is simply to start with an audio recording or Bible-reading audio of someone else reading the Bible to you.

Some Christians also like to have Bible-reading audio while they sleep.

I am currently working an entire YouTube playlist in which I read the entire Bible to you. The audio is, of course, free to you via YouTube.

Click Here for Free Bible-Reading Audio Recordings

2. P.M. or A.M. Reading Routine Commitment

Everyone has a morning and evening routine. You are just either conscious or unconscious of it.

Now, your routine may be, wake up and go wherever the day takes you or to whatever calls your attention. Your routine may be waking up and feeding your baby. Your routine may be waking up and scrolling on your phone. Whatever it is that you have going on throughout your day, you have the choice and the power to organize your time to prioritize that which is important to you.

Simply make a choice to incorporate 30 minutes of the Bible into your morning or evening routine by setting aside the time and showing up for it.

Most people are more alert in the morning, so it is probably better to incorporate reading the Bible into your mornings for the sake of comprehension, yet if you are simply getting yourself into the habit of reaching for your Bible, then reading the Bible at night is more important because you likely won’t be able to fully grasp what it is you are reading anyway, and it will get you primed to start reaching for your Bible so that you read it daily.

3. Replacing Apps with Time Reading the Bible

Too many Christian women claim that they are busy, yet they spend an incredible amount of time scrolling on social media apps without even realizing how much time has elapsed.

If you replaced the time that you spend fingering your phone to entertain yourself and supporting the content of everyone else with time reading the Bible, you would be amazed at how much time you actually do have to invite the Holy Spirit into your life.

4. Studying the Bible

Reading the Bible is quite an endeavor. The Bible is rich and is filled with many different things that may be received in many different ways depending upon where you are in your walk with the Lord.

If you are interested in reading a musing on what the Bible even is, then you need to read this post.

Read “What is the Bible?”

Studying the Bible allows you to understand it from a more or less cognizant standpoint. Studying the Bible allows you to understand context, to understand words and what they meant in the time that they were being used, and helps you to have a new focus and new perspective on that which you read.

Additionally, when it comes to incorporating reading the Bible into your busy day, Bible study allows you to be excited about reading the Bible as you are learning and thus adding to your understanding of your faith, it gives you a focus and a purpose for reading the Bible, and Bible study allows you to be more articulate in what you share with others about what you have read.

5. Talking about Reading the Bible with Others

As Christian women, our faith is not to exist in a vacuum. Rather, Christian women are called to share the Gospel. We are called to share that which we have read with others. We do this not to condemn them but to inspire and encourage them to seek the Lord themselves.

As it stands, this sharing further feeds you and motivates you to go back to your Bible so that you may continue to enrich your relationship with the Lord and continue to have a leg to stand on when you speak about it.

When we fuel others, we also fuel ourselves, and when we talk with others about the Bible, we may learn things that we overlooked or simply were not ready to receive, which adds to our walk with the Lord and further encourages us to continue reading His word.

Put simply, sharing the Bible with others is a way by which we hold ourselves and our sisters in Christ accountable.

5 Easy Ways Christian Women may Incorporate Reading the Bible into their Busy Day

Every Christian woman has the same 24 hour day. It is what we choose to do with the time that we are given that makes our life.

If you Love the Lord, you will seek Him, and when you seek Him, He will find Him.

Too many Christian women pay lip service to Christianity yet fail to walk with the Lord in their life, in their actions, and in their heart.

The time to serve the Lord is now. The time to make the Lord the center of your life is now. The time to know the Lord is now.

Hence, the time to read the Bible is now.

I hope that this blog post helps you to incorporate reading the Bible into your busy day. No one is able to do it for you, so start where you are, and let Jesus lead the way.

May God bless you, and may peace be with you.

With (tough) love,

Hannah