Abigail Dodds has a wonderful piece at Desiring God called “Young Mom, You Can Read the Bible.” She speaks of the advice she received that never quite worked out: To make sure she woke early before the children in order to spend time with the Lord in his word. While such advice is not bad, it is not for everybody.
Perhaps forsaking the physically necessary (and often-too-few) hours of God-ordained nighttime rest isn’t a sustainable solution for your problem of inconsistent or nonexistent Bible reading. So, what is the solution? First, you must know your desperate need for God’s word every day. Then you must recognize that God’s word is more precious than you could imagine, and your ideals about how to read it are less precious than you might imagine.
She goes on to speak of the many opportunities to make use of brief, scattered moment through the day.
Reading God’s word is something that can be done with children around. It can be done with a baby in your arms. It can be done through your husband reading the Scriptures aloud to you over the dinner table. It can be done in the morning, afternoon, or night.
When you’re a mom of very young ones, an important tool you need to keep yourself fed with God’s word through those very short (yet very long) years is flexibility in how you read, along with consistency that you read. Be flexible about how you read God’s word, and be unwaveringly consistent that you read it.
There is much wisdom here. Check it out!
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