Well, if you enjoy reading books and reading for an extended period of time and getting

lost in a story, thank God for this gift because it is a gift not all Christians can enjoy.

For many believers, reading is made painfully hard by dyslexia, as is the case for a podcast

listener named Henry who writes in to us today.

Hello Pastor John, I recently discovered that I suffer from a learning disability that

impairs my reading ability, I can only read a short amount of material, I lose my concentration

after a few minutes and then develop serious headaches from reading on past that.

At first I thought I was just lazy, but it is actually a learning disability I have had

almost my entire life.

I want to read the Bible and read it fully, but I find it incredibly difficult.

At times it's almost impossible.

How can someone who can only read for a very short amount of time read the entire Bible

and Glean truth from it?

I recently wrote an article that I called sanctification and senility.

The question I raised was how do you fight for faith and the obedience that comes from

faith when your memory has weakened to the point where you don't remember the promises

of God after you read them?

Part of my answer was that we should see senility and the loss of memory, eventually loss

of eyesight and the ability to read and loss of hearing and ultimately perhaps being in

a coma.

We should see all of this as a progressive state of disability, Henry's drawing attention

to disability.

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