I just had a friend ask if we could study the Bible together again. I know she has some real struggles, and life has been difficult for her recently. I am so thankful that she reached out--the last study we had ended rather abruptly on her end, and I wasn't sure we would restart.

When we first started, it was because I had just bought a new book about studying God's Word. I wanted to read it with someone, since that was the point of the book, as well as another one I had read recently before that. Her response to that weekly connection was huge.

She was so grateful that I had taken the time to include her in reading a book. A BOOK. That grew to studies in two books of the Bible following a bit of what we had learned from the book we read together. She told me that nobody had ever asked her to study the Bible before.

Of course, growing up in a household that attended church, she had read her Bible, and was told that it was necessary. But just to read through with someone else and dig into what is written, in it's context--she had never done that. And she had never learned how to do that.

I saw her read Scripture with new eyes. It was amazing. It was one of many things that has kept me asking people if they would be willing to read the Bible--believer or not. We have such wealth at our fingertips, but how many people are like my friend--don't know how?

Yes, I am getting to the point of this thread:

1. I am so thankful for God's Word that is real, true, living and life-giving.

2. I need wisdom in how we go about this next study--I wan't God glorified, not my words or opinion.

3. I am thankful for people like @jenniferwilkin, @ElyseFitz, and others (who aren't on Twitter), who write books to help people know how to read their Bible better so they can know God better, and how to share that with others.

4. Ask someone to read/study the Bible with you.