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Redeemed86, I so loved your post.. I've not read the whole Bible yet either and for the same reasons that you shared above. .I always love reading what you have to say. God BlessI try to make time everyday to read the Bible. Not always successful at that, but I don't let too many days get by me without checking in with God. Currently reading from cover to cover, and am in the middle of Psalms. I've read the New testament and Old Testament separately, but this will be the first time reading all the way through both without stopping. I'm doing the 6 chapters a day, for a year.
I won't claim to know why anyone else doesn't, but I know why I didn't.
My past personal experience is that I convinced myself I was too "busy" to sit and read it. It honestly just wasn't appealing when I could watch tv, go online or go out somewhere. It was a chore to be completed, and was reflective of where I was at in my relationship with God.
It adds to the point, that it's not by our own doing, but the Holy Spirit drawing us to Himself. Where before it was a bunch of text I needed to know to get to Heaven, now it is the revealing Word of God that I live by and enjoy.
It helps to just separate yourself from the technology and distractions of the world for a portion of the day and get into the habit of reading.
God left us His Holy Word and yet many of us have not read it in it's entirety...why is that?
... an angel killing 100,000 men in an afternoon....
It is so true that reading the Bible just for the sake of reading it, does not produce in us all of the revelation knowledge that God would have us to see and walk in. Just one verse of scripture holds within itself many, many different facets and viewpoints, so that reading the Bible through just one time means that we've only scratched the surface. There are so many riches yet to be revealed to us.I would suppose that the number one reason why many of us don't read, study, and meditate on the Word like we ought to is a lack of discipline.