Tara-Leigh Cobble

They will never bring you joy or sustain you in trials.

I have the Bible app on the home screen of my phone.

They will never draw you in to spend more time with God out of sheer joy and delight.

It's in the top right corner.

I don't want it to get lost on my screen.

I've also set up a notification in the app itself that reminds me every morning to read my Bible.

So each day, I'll be summarizing the overarching storyline so we can keep pace with the metanarrative,

I've set that notification to arrive in the middle of the night so that it's on my screen when I wake up.

At the end of each episode, I'll point out something we saw about who God is.

And since I use my phone as my alarm, that reminder is the first thing I see when I wake up.

We call that section the God shot, which is basically our way of saying this is the picture of God and his character that we saw in today's reading.

All I have to do is click on the notification and it takes me to the day's reading.

Yours will probably be different than ours because there is so much to see about God in each passage.

At that point, I'm still in bed.

I might be tempted to check my emails or the weather or Instagram, but I resist the urge.

By the way, this is not our application point or our to-do list.

Those things will all still be there after my priority time, which is, by the way, what I call my time with God in the morning.

This is our to-behold list.

We're looking for God in the God shot.

Lots of people call it by other names, quiet time, Jesus time, Bible time, but I had to call it something that reminded me of its position in my life.