“Now, that doesn’t mean I give up reading my Bible,” she said, “but I give up doing the consecutive reading through the Bible, and then I’ll just start studying a book or doing something like that. But I really want to do it.”
Childers said that when she got to the Book of Job, she realized that in the past she had read Job so quickly “that I didn’t even really get to take in what it actually means.”
“Job is honestly a hard book to interpret because you have a lot of dialogue, there’s a lot of bad advice that his friends give, and you have to actually kind of think,” she explained. “You have to slow down and think. And so I have gotten so much just out of reading Job very slowly—way more than I’ve ever got from reading it really fast.”
“Instead of making an unrealistic goal that you’re going to end up giving up on, this is so great because you’re just going to keep going,” said Childers.
“And even if you just read a little bit one day and that’s all you could really soak up and take in, that’s okay,” she said. “And maybe if you read a bigger chunk the next day, that’s okay too. But the point is that you just keep going, rather than trying to do it in such a quick amount of time.”
