Tara-Leigh Cobble

When you're done, you'll open your podcast app and listen to the Bible Recap, where we'll talk about what you just read.

We just do it whenever it's convenient for us, which often turns out to be never.

I once heard John Piper say that he treats his time with God like he'd treat a meeting with any other person.

Most episodes are about eight minutes long, but sometimes I get really excited and it's hard to shut me up.

If he's reading the Bible and someone rings his doorbell, he asks God for permission to be excused.

On the days that I do manage to keep it at about eight minutes, both your Bible reading and my Bible recapping will take most readers around 20 minutes a day.

What?

Listen, when you meet with God, you're engaging with a real person who has a real personality and real desires and takes real action.

That's only 1% of your day and it will change everything.

In addition to that, we've designed some tools to help you with this process.

If you have a hard time remembering this, maybe you need to sit across from an empty chair and let that be the place you imagine Him coming to meet with you when you read your Bible and pray.

Begin by recognizing that he is real and you are in a real relationship with him.

As with any real relationship, it needs time to grow.

It may be a little awkward at first when you're moving through the small talk, getting to know each other.

You may jump to some conclusions that you later find out are wrong when you have more information.

These questions are designed to not only help you learn more, but also to equip you with some new tools for studying scripture that you can carry with you forever.

That's okay.

And just like in any relationship, it's important to ask good questions and pay attention to what the other person is saying.

The daily journal and the daily study guide are both intended for you to use on your own.

When something stands out to you as really awesome or encouraging, take note about it in your journal.