All right now, if we're honest, reading the Bible consistently can be a challenge, but it's never too late to start and we're in this together.

This is the Join the Journey podcast.

Thanks for joining. I'm Lauren Atkinson on the Join the Journey staff team and today I am in the podcast studio with faithful watermark member, Bill Aiken.

Hey guys, good to be here.

Bill, happy to have you in the studio.

And before we get into Psalm 125, why don't you start by just sharing part of your story of God's grace in your life?

Yeah, absolutely.

So grew up here in Dallas, Texas and became a Christian early days, you know, through a school ministry,

student venture, where understood that Christ had died for my sins and through belief in him as

a Lord, I could have eternal life. Later on in life, I kind of hit a period where I was

struggling to understand my relationship with God, and it felt

just sort of dry.

And I didn't necessarily understand it this way, looking through it, through that experience,

but looking back on it, here's how I've come to understand it.

I wasn't loving God with all my mind.

So in Mark 1230, you know, the greatest commandment is love the Lord your God with all

your heart, soul, mind, and strength. And while mind and brain aren't exactly the same thing,

I think I was loving God mainly with my left part of my brain. So reading the Bible verse by

verse and trying to understand it that way,

doing apologetics. But I wasn't loving God with the right side of my brain. And so I'd gone to a

high school retreat, so parents of high schoolers where my son went. And there was a spiritual

retreat where instead of doing sort of a traditional normal Bible study,

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