Passion for God's Word Challenge: Discipline 1

Okay seriously.  This morning I had to remember what I talked about yesterday on "discipline" because, friends-I'm not gonna lie, I did NOT want to get up this morning.  But the Lord helped get me up this morning (because I'm sure He wanted me to spend some time with Him, too!) and I did get up for some quiet time before the busyness of the day started. And I'm so glad I did!

So here is the first discipline Elizabeth George talks about:

" 1.  Refuse to miss a day.  Make your first discipline a decision to be faithful in just one thing-in spending some portion of your day rading your Bible.  Make your first discipline an attempt at not missing a single day.  God's Word is at the heart of a woman-even a busy woman!-who is passionate about her relationship with Him.
      Here's how one of the Bible's great men of faith viewed God's Word.  In the midst of just about every kind of suffering known to mankind, Job declared, 'I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food' (Job 23:12).  This is quite a statement!  Very few of us ever miss a meal.  And Job is showing us that God's Word should hold a higher priority for our souls than our necessary food holds for our body.  This grieving man, having lost all, cherished God's Word more than his daily food...
     To help me with this new discipline, I began using a 'Quiet Times Calendar'...that required that I color on or shade in the spaces provided for each day when I actually had a quiet time.  The goal when using this calendar is to form a solid line (like the mercury of a thermometer) as you read your Bible day after day...seeking to never miss a day.  Once again, the adage is true-one picture is worth a thousand words!  Still, these many years later, all I ever have to do is look at that chart and I know-at a glance-how I'm doing.  I either see the 'thermometer' look (a solid line), the 'Morse Code' look (dot, dot, dash, dot, dot, dash), or the 'measles' look (here a dot, there a dot, everywhere a dot, dot).  
      Now, how do you think your Quiet Times Calendar would look?  Are you getting closer to developing the discipline of refusing to miss a day?"           
                                                                     - Life Management for Busy Women, pg. 22-23

For the Quiet Times Calendar I found that doing a spreadsheet on Excel worked really great.  I put the months above and mark down the column for each day I have a quiet time...trying to make a thermometer! 

I hope this helps ya'll as much as it did me!  And please, if you have feed back, I'd love to read it!  Blessings for the day to you all!!