Welcome to "As long as it is called Today." Our focus on the second week of the month is to encourage one another as Christian wives/husbands. I hope you will join me each week on Friday as we encourage each other in our daily lives as Christians, spouses, parents, and home keepers.
Thank you to everyone who participated last week. Click here to read the answers posted last Tuesday and throughout the week.
Today's question: Do you and your spouse study or read the Bible together? When? How often? What tips do you have for making this a part of your regular routine?
My answer: When we do read together it is before we go to bed. I also like asking him questions from my reading because he is good at explaining things to me.
I am really looking forward to your answers because this is an area we need to work to improve in our marriage. Leave your answer in the comment section. Have a wonderful day!
8 comments:
No, sadly my husband and I don't read the Bible together. And honestly he doesn't read any Bible on his own either. This is something I've always really struggled with and been deeply saddened and frustrated with. For a long time I'd try to "encourage" him into doing more but finally realized that it was just nagging and so now I just have to give it up completely to the Lord and just pray about it. However, I am trying to get up with him in the morning so we can read a quick chapter out of the 10-Minutes With God book. That's at least something! So if you want to pray with me on that, that would be great!
Good thoughts... :)
We don't read it together. I guess we should huh? We have opened it up and read to each other...asked random questions... but never just sat down and read together...
I don't even know if we will... this gives me something to think about Bethany!!
God bless-
Amanda
Well, we don't read it together... I always wanted us to, but it just never seemed to be something he was comfortable with. He doesn't like to read outloud. So, we read on our own (devos, study time) and each morning or evening we discuss with each other what the Lord is teaching us. It's taken a lot of stress off of our marriage for me to release him from my expectations.
Great question.
I think it's important that you both do what you feel comfortable... We should not put any pressure on the other to pray or read the bible together. If a couple does... this is great... if they don't it is great too... as long as they each have their time with the Lord.
For my husband and I, we pray together but we do not do devotions or read the bible together. We each have our time with the Lord, sometimes we will discuss what we are studying... It's always great to hear my hubby share what the Lord is teaching him. I learn a great deal from Jim...
Bethany,
Jay and I read and have quiet time at the same time generally...and there are times he will tell me "I want to read something to you" when a passage speaks to his heart and visa versa...but we don't read together unless we are teaching a class together. Right now Jay is teaching a new beginners class so we are not even in the same devotional studies.
However, we constantly talk about our devotional times and what the Lord spoke to us. And in the evening we used to have a devotional time together...with me not feeling well and sleeping earlier that has fallen by the wayside, I'm sad to say.
This is a great question, my friend. Blessings to you!
My husband and I love to discuss Scripture, theology, and our pastor's sermons. We do not read the Bible together very often, because he is a listener... he likes to HEAR the Word spoken on tapes and the radio. Since I am the reader, I frequently have my nose in the Bible. My suggestion to all of us: listen to the Word together some time!
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