The Bible
Where do I start reading the Bible?
Short answer
Start with Mark or John. Read a short section each day, ask what it shows you about God, and do one thing it says.
Don't start at Genesis and read straight through. Many people stall in Leviticus. Start with Jesus: Mark is short and fast, John goes deeper.
Pick a time and place that works, like before you check your phone in the morning. Ten minutes is plenty. Use a translation you easily understand.
Read a passage and ask: What does this show me about God? About people, including me? What will I do today? Write one sentence down and pray about it.
After a Gospel, read Acts, a short letter like Philippians, and some Psalms. Miss a day? Pick up tomorrow. No guilt, no streaks. The goal is knowing God.
My verses
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.
This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves. For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror, and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.