We are going to ease our way into Revelation by working through some preparatory readings this first week. It’s going to be great. Let’s go!

Psalm 1

1 Blessed is the man
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree
planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
4 The wicked are not so,
but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
6 for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

Psalm 1 says that the person who reads the Bible over and over and thinks about it constantly will be blessed.

Today is the day to make a clean break with the past—on the first day of the year, anything is possible.

What is your plan to become a Bible reader? Where will you sit each morning?

Make a plan now to get the most out of these coming months. Reading Revelation is a challenge, but if you just read it, slowly and deliberately, you will get much more out of it than you put into it.

P.S. If you don’t have Psalm 1 memorized, now’s the time to start. If you do, take time today to write it out by hand.