If you’re up for a challenge, and it is a challenge, then try to read the Bible in one month (30 days). Maybe you’ll spend less time on useless activities (like social media) at the same time. Most adults spend as much as 6 or 7 hours a day in useless entertainment activities (movies, TV, scrolling endlessly…). Take back your time for the Lord and get into His Word in a big way. It will take 2½ hours or less per day for 30 days to get through the Bible completely, if you are an average-paced reader.
This is not Bible study, really. It isn’t trying to get a particular feeling from the Holy Book. And it isn’t a start-at-the-beginning-and-go-to-the-end-as-fast-as-you-can exercise either. Nor is it clumped into any particular shape for any particular function (other than getting through it as concisely and fully as possible). That is to say, it isn’t topical. In fact, it is only this: a way to evenly read the Bible all the way through in exactly 30 days—and no more than 2 hours 30 minutes per day (at average speed)—without missing anything. It has been engineered for equitable division of reading time, with an eye (loosely) on content.
Now, if 2½ hours for 30 days straight is too much for you, that’s fine. Go for 60 days or 90 days or even the whole year. Just mark off the parts you’ve read (you can take notes) and keep going through the series/system. However you do it, the plan is there to help break it up into manageable pieces. I’ve done the thinking for you, so you can just follow the plan and know that you got all 66 books covered.
Since I’m in the spectrum of ADHD and Aspergers, I needed a plan that would break up the monotony of just going from front cover to back cover. There is nothing at all wrong with that method—millions of people do it annually—I just needed something to break it up some. And so that is what I have put together here. Check it out and get a feel for it by observing the times given for each day to complete it (at average speed).
However you read the Bible, the important thing is to keep reading it. Try your best to understand it. If you have accepted Christ as your Savior (that you depend solely and completely on His sacrifice) then you have the Holy Spirit in you, telling you what it means (if you ask, especially). And the next important step, that cannot be ignored, is to actually follow what it teaches you. That is called “obedience” and is very underrated today. We must be obedient to Jesus, The Father, and Their Holy Spirit. Reading the Word is one way we can hear Him. Prayer is another. Do these things daily, and keep Him in mind at all times, and He will be so close to you that you will wonder how you ever got through life without daily Bible and prayer (and Him). And THAT is the real challenge: Get so close to God that nothing else can come between you.
It doesn’t matter what day of the week or month you start. Just follow the plan each day.
Here it is as an image to print out, or (below that) as a day by day item to follow from the website:
Day by Day
Day 1: (2 hrs. 06 min) Psalms 1-8, Proverbs 1, Genesis 1-24
Day 2: (2 hrs. 24 min) Psalms 9-16, Proverbs 2, Genesis 25-50
Day 3: (2 hrs. 30 min) Matthew
Day 4: (2 hrs. 25 min) Psalms 17-24, Proverbs 3, Exodus 1-20, Esther, Luke 1-2
Day 5: (2 hrs. 26 min) Psalms 25-32, Proverbs 4-5, Exodus 21-40, Luke 3-6, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude
Day 6: (2 hrs. 24 min) Psalms 33-40, Proverbs 6, Hosea, Luke 7-10, Romans, Galatians
Day 7: (2 hrs. 24 min) Psalms 41-48, Proverbs 7, Numbers 1-18, Ruth, Lamentations, Luke 11-15
Day 8: (2 hrs. 27 min) Psalms 49-56, Proverbs 8, Numbers 19-36, Ezra, Luke 16-20, Philippians
Day 9: (2 hrs. 26 min) Proverbs 9, Ecclesiastes, Luke 21-23, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians
Day 10: (2 hrs. 27 min) Proverbs 10, Song of Solomon, Luke 24, Mark, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy
Day 11: (2 hrs. 5 min) Psalms 57-64, Proverbs 11, Isaiah 1–39, Micah, Ephesians
Day 12: (2 hrs.) Psalms 65-72, Proverbs 12, Isaiah 40–66, Hebrews, Colossians
Day 13: (2 hrs. 30 min) Ezekiel
Day 14: (2 hrs. 12 min) Psalms 73-76, Proverbs 13, Jeremiah 1–25, Nahum, Habakkuk, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, Titus, Philemon
Day 15: (2 hrs.) Psalms 77-82, Proverbs 14, Jeremiah 26–52, Amos
Day 16: (2 hrs. 10 min) Psalms 83-88, Proverbs 15, John
Day 17: (2 hrs. 10 min) Psalms 89-96, Proverbs 16, Leviticus
Day 18: (2 hrs. 20 min) Psalms 97-100, Proverbs 17, Acts
Day 19: (2 hrs. 30 min) Deuteronomy
Day 20: (2 hrs. 21 min) Psalms 101-104, Proverbs 18, Nehemiah, Revelation
Day 21: (2 hrs. 23 min) Proverbs 19, Joshua, James
Day 22: (2 hrs. 18 min) Psalms 105-112, Proverbs 20, Judges, Joel, Malachi
Day 23: (2 hrs. 9 min) Psalms 113-118, Proverbs 21-23, Daniel, Zechariah
Day 24: (2 hrs. 30 min) Psalms 119, 1 Samuel
Day 25: (2 hrs. 20 min) Psalms 120-126, Proverbs 24, 2 Samuel, 1 Peter, 2 Peter
Day 26: (2 hrs. 20 min) Psalms 127-133, Proverbs 25, 1 Kings, Obadiah, Jonah
Day 27: (2 hrs. 25 min) Psalms 134-141, Proverbs 26, 2 Kings
Day 28: (2 hrs. 10 min) Psalms 142-147, Proverbs 27-28, 1 Chronicles
Day 29: (2 hrs. 30 min) 2 Chronicles
Day 30: (2 hrs. 4 min) Psalms 148-150, Proverbs 29-31, Job, Zephaniah, Haggai
Hey, you could read the Bible 12 times per year!
Blessings,
Gary
