It is the middle of January. What goals for yourself are you keeping? What plans are already slipping between the cracks? This is around the time when New Year Resolutions start to get broken.
One resolution that godly people make near the end of the year/beginning of a new year is to read their Bible more. I won’t discourage it, obviously, but I would encourage people not to trouble themselves with those “daily Bible reader” charts. In my experience, both personally and by observation, those charts tend to cause people more stress than anything. People miss a day or two and then feel the pressure to hurry and catch back up to where they left off, so they can be sure to finish the Bible by midnight on December 31st. People who do that usually have a hard time retaining much of anything they’re reading, which makes the whole exercise a waste of time, if you ask me.
Instead, I would encourage you, not to “read” your Bible more, but to “study” your Bible more. Pick one book and devote your time and attention to it, a little here and there, every day, until you are satisfied you understand the text. Then, when you’re done, be it a month later or three months later, pick another Bible book and start over. You might only get through three or four books. You might cover eight or nine. You might get knee deep in Ezekiel and, poof, there goes the year. So what? What have you lost? Nothing! You’ve gained a year’s worth of understanding! That’s worth a million times more than some arbitrary feeling of accomplishment that comes by speed-reading/skimming through all sixty-six books.
The Bible isn’t going anywhere. Take your time with it. If you die before you finish studying every book, I’ve got news for you: There are people who have spent their whole lives studying the Bible, and died without ever feeling like they’ve scratched the surface. I promise you those people aren’t fretting over it.
They will live forever with the Author of the Bible.
~Matthew