Bible Reading Information for May
Monthly Schedule
Daily Reading Schedule
- May 1: 2 Samuel 5:1-10; I Chronicles 11-12
- May 2: Psalm 133
- May 3: Psalm 106-107
- May 4: 2 Samuel 5:11-6:23; 1 Chronicles 13-16
- May 5: Psalm 1-2, 15, 22-24, 47, 68
- May 6: Psalm 89, 96, 100, 101, 105, 132
- May 7: 2 Samuel 7; 1 Chronicles 17
- May 8: Psalm 25, 29, 33, 36, 39
- May 9: 2 Samuel 8-9; 1 Chronicles 18
- May 10: Psalm 50, 53, 60, 75
- May 11: 2 Samuel 10; 1 Chronicles 19; Psalm 20
- May 12: Psalm 65-67, 69-70
- May 13: 2 Samuel 11-12; 1 Chronicles 20
- May 14: Psalm 32, 51, 86, 122
- May 15: 2 Samuel 13-15
- May 16: Psalm 3-4, 12-13, 28, 55
- May 17: 2 Samuel 16-18
- May 18: Psalm 26, 40, 58, 61-62, 64
- May 19: 2 Samuel 19-21
- May 20: Psalm 5, 38, 41-42
- May 21: 2 Samuel 22-23; Psalm 57
- May 22: Psalm 95, 97-99
- May 23: 2 Samuel 24; 1 Chronicles 21-22; Psalm 30
- May 24: Psalm 108-110
- May 25: 1 Chronicles 23-25
- May 26: Psalm 131, 138-139, 143-145
- May 27: 1 Chronicles 26-29; Psalm 127
- May 28: Psalm 111-118
- May 29: 1 Kings 1-2; Psalm 37, 71, 94
- May 30: Psalm 119:1-88
- May 31: 1 Kings 3-4; 2 Chronicles 1; Psalm 72
Meditation
Preservation of Our Joy in God
When Paul says in 2 Corinthians 1:24, "Not that we lord it over your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy," we should emphasize it this way: "We are workers with you for your joy." The preservation of our joy in God takes work. It is a fight. Our adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, and he has an insatiable appetite to destroy one thing: the joy of faith. But the Holy Spirit has given us a sword called the Word of God for the defense of our joy.
Or, to change the image, when Satan huffs and puffs and tries to blow out the flame of your joy, you have an endless supply of kindling in the Word of God. Even on days when every cinder in our soul feels cold, if we crawl to the Word of God and cry out for ears to hear, the cold ashes will be lifted and the tiny spark of life will be fanned. For "the law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul." The Bible is the kindling of Christian Hedonism.
My aim in this chapter is to help you wear the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God, and wield it to preserve your joy in God. There are three steps we need to climb together:
First, we need to know why we accept the Bible as the reliable Word of God.
Second, we need to see the benefits and power of Scripture and how it kindles our joy.
Third, we need to hear a practical challenge to renew our daily meditation in the Word of God, and to bind that sword so closely around our waist that we are never without it.