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Trying Something Different

Posted on 09/01/2009 by Benji Zimmerman Posted in Personal | 2 Comments

A few days ago I posted about our trip to Michigan and the fact that it left me wanting to deal with the demons from my past. The post ended rather rhetorical as I was looking for an idea of how to do things differently than the ways I had tried in recent years to deal with my past. I had an idea in my head that has been rattling around for a few months here it is:

“Benji, you need to stop reading books. Stop spending so much time reading about what others have to say about God and his word, and just read the Bible.”

My response to myself was that I read the Bible enough to know what it says and that it wouldn’t help much in this issue in my life. I don’t know if I have ever been so arrogant and wrong in my life. I need all the help I can get. I have to be honest, that is what this blog is all about. I have read all the books of the Bible at one time or another, but I have never read the Bible straight through. After seeing some very positive results in friends and co-workers who have been reading the Zondervan Bible in 90 days, I decided a few days ago that starting September first I would start reading the Bible, 12 pages a day until it was finished.

All of this was solidified in my mind before the weekend. Then on Sunday when my wife came into the bookstore and told me that she was PREGNANT I knew I needed to get busy allowing God to work on the demons in my heart and life. I am so excited to become a father. It is a joy and honor I have dreamed of for many years, but with the added pressure mounting of being a husband and a father, I am so grateful that I have the next nine months to allow God to sweep into my life and clean out some of my closets.

During the next 90 days I have some expectations but I am trying to forget all the stuff I know about God and the Bible and allow the Holy Spirit to lead me through the scriptures so that I might come to know more about God and maybe a little more about myself. I am sure that the tone and shape of this blog will change over the next 90 days and that I might lose a subscriber or two, but for those of you who hang around and lurk these pages I pray that if you have time you will consider picking up a copy of the Bible in 90 days and take this journey with me, a journey I should have taken a long time ago. Oh well, it is never to late to try something different.