When you read the whole Bible you can start to see answers to certain questions.

Here's Nancy Demas Walghemuth.

What is God up to in this world? What is he doing?

And what does my life have to do with it? Where do I fit into God's plan? If you want to understand that, be sure that you aren't

overlooking or bypassing certain portions of the word of God.

This is the Reviver Hearts Podcast with Nancy Demas Walgemuth,

author of The Quiet Place.

For January 4th, 2024, I'm Dana Gresch. We all need well-balanced diets and maybe you've resolved to eat healthier in

2024. As the year starts, I'm trying to kick-start that habit. Well, you also need well-balanced reading,

and I hope you'll approach the Bible in a healthy way this year.

Nancy's offering us a plan for well-balanced reading

as she continues the series, getting into the word and getting the word

into you. Let's listen.

I want you to imagine that you were to open your refrigerator at home, close your eyes, and then reach out to your hand

and just grab whatever items your hand happened to reach. And you would take those items out, three or four of them,

and that would be your meal.

You might grab a jar of mayonnaise, a pickle jar,

and a peach, or whatever happens to be in your refrigerator right now.

And you say that's an awful way to put a menu together.

Well I agree but you know it's a picture of the way a lot of people approach the word of God.

They just blindly grab whatever passage they come to first.

Open the Bible and just pick a passage here, pick a passage there.

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