Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

If you and I are going to spend a year and hopefully the rest of our lives reading through

the Bible, let's aim to do it well.

Today I'm going to talk about the three primary mistakes I made during my first trip through

Scripture until you had to avoid them.

Hopefully you'll be able to get the hang of this much quicker than I did and with fewer pitfalls.

My first major mistake and the one I think were all naturally inclined to make is that

I was looking for myself in Scripture.

Maybe it was the result of my church upbringing, but I'd come to view the Bible as a big

to-do list, even though I knew that wasn't the primary message.

It's hard to rewire the way you think about Scripture if you've held a certain view

for a long time.

But one thing that really helped me was asking myself a few questions each time I read.

Number one, what did God say in this passage?

Number two, what did God do in this passage?

Number three, why did God do?

Or say what God said or did in this passage?

Number four, what did I learn about what God loves?

Number five, what did I learn about what God hates?

Number six, what did I learn about who God is?

If you can't find God in the passage, look harder.

Ask yourself, what's happening in these pages that could be attributed to God?

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