Reading Plan

At the end of 2010, Pastor Tom encouraged the members of our church to have a Bible reading plan as we enter 2011.  A couple years prior, our church was reading through the Old Testament together, and we were encouraged to buy a book, For the Love of God by D.A. Carson, which includes the M'Cheyne Bible reading plan.  The M'Cheyne reading plan, if followed as intended, will result in you reading all of the Old Testament once, and the New Testament and Psalms twice, during the course of one year.  Going into 2011, this was my plan.  This was a very ambitious plan for me.  I have never read through the Bible in a year.  There are portions of Scripture I have never read.  When the year began, I did a pretty good job of staying caught up.  But over time, I started getting behind.  This summer was especially bad.  After our vacation weeks, I was almost two months behind.  I'm excited to say that I just got caught up! 

I am not a morning person.  But since school has started, I've committed to getting up before the kids and reading my Bible.  And I can only give God credit for being able to do it faithfully for the last 2 weeks.  I'm feeling very grateful to Him because for so long, I didn't have a strong desire to be in the Word.  And I felt guilty about that, but still didn't make myself do it.  And over the course of the last couple years, I've seen God working in my heart on that.  It started with me asking him to give me a desire.  And then making myself spend time in the Word, even if I got nothing out of it, knowing that even my effort was honoring God.  I'm definitely not to the point of having a passion for being in the Word.  My motivation right now is completing my goal of reading the Bible in a year, not growing closer to Jesus.  But I can see God using my own selfish motivations to get me where I need to be.  And being in the Word DOES bring me closer to Jesus. 

So, who can create an app for my phone with the M'Cheyne reading plan?