Hey! If you’re new here, today we are on Day 26 of 90 in our efforts to read the Bible from cover to cover in 90 days! Stick around, I’m so glad that you’re here!

So we begin today with the story of David and Goliath! Woohoo! David and Goliath is probably one of the first stories that I was actually able to remember from the Bible. How about you? If not, go back and check it in today’s reading (it’s all posted at the bottom – the verses we read).

So Jonathan (Saul’s son) loves David with a deep abiding love, he recognizes David as God’s anointed, rightful king, and he makes a covenant with David. David defeats many enemies and Saul begins to truly fear David. Saul wants David dead! Saul told his son, Jonathan, and his servants to kill David so then Jonathan tells David, hey – my dad wants to kill you – be on your guard! Some stuff happens and things seem like they’re going to be cool between Saul and David but here comes the evil spirit and Saul is back to plotting David’s death so David flees. After David has left Saul ends up killing this priest and he pursues David but then . . . . DAVID spares Saul’s life! Saul and David have an oath; Saul concedes that David is the true, anointed king for Israel and makes sure David won’t wipe out Saul’s descendants and David agrees. Saul returns home and David goes to battle. Samuel died and princess Abigail becomes David’s wife, and David spares Saul’s life again when he tells Abisha that it’s a no-go when they come across Saul and soldiers in the camp just sleeping because David was in obedience, he understood it wasn’t his time, and that some day he’d rule, but right now King Saul was still the leader of the nation. Hey, power to you, but I’m not going to tell you that I’d have such integrity. I mean, can you imagine the restraint and love and submission and obedience that it would take to humble yourself and let that play out . . . to not murder Saul on the spot when he’d previously so earnestly sought to have you killed? Wow! He was good though, he recognized that it was his time, he wasn’t taking the easy way out.

Sometimes when things come our way, when we’re going to get something that we really want and we’re really excited about it, we jump on it just because the opportunity is there but that doesn’t mean it’s something that’s going to be good for us. Just because it is laying in front of us doesn’t mean it’s a blessing. Just because I desperately need money and find a bag full of it when I’m walking through the parking lot, that opportunity to get my way doesn’t mean it’s a blessing, it just means the opportunity to reach out and take what I want/need is there. There is a difference. We have to use discernment. I’d never pickup a bag of money and just walk off with it, I’ve never seen anything in my life that I wanted bad enough that I’d steal for it and all I’d think if I took someone’s stuff is – I basically stole it. I’d be searching for the rightful owners. Same thing here, when we have the opportunity for something and take it even though it’s not aligned with what God would have, it’s not a blessing for us, and quite possibly we could be robbing someone else of a robbing.

“Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.” Romans 12:10

Day 27 1 Samuel 17 – 1 Samuel 31

Day 28 2 Samuel 1 – 24

Day 29 1 Kings 1 – 22

Day 30 2 Kings 1 – 25

Day 31 1 Chronicles 1 – 8

Day 32 1 Chronicles 9 – 19

Day 33 1 Chronicles 20 – 29

Day 34 2 Chronicles 1 – 21

Day 35 2 Chronicles 22 – 36

Day 36 Ezra 1-  Ezra 10

Day 37 Nehemiah 1 –  Nehemiah 13

Day 38 Esther 1 –  Esther 10

Day38 Job 1 –  Job 23

Day 39 Job 24 –  Job 42

Day 40 Psalms 1 –  Psalms 21

Day 41 Psalms 22 – Psalms 60

Day 42 Psalms 61 – Psalms 90

Day 43 Psalms 91 – Psalms 115

Day 44 Psalms 116 – Psalms 150

Day 45 Proverbs 1 – Proverbs 15

Day 46 Proverbs 16 – Proverbs 31

Day 47 Ecclesiastes 1 – Ecclesiastes 12

Day 48 Song of Solomon 1 – Song of Solomon 8

Day 49 Isaiah 1 –  Isaiah 27

Day 50 Isaiah 28 – Isaiah 66

Day 51 Jeremiah 1 – Jeremiah 20

Day 52 Jeremiah 21 – Jeremiah 52

Day 53 Lamentations 1 – Lamentations 5

Day 54 Ezekiel 1 – Ezekiel 22

Day 55 Ezekiel 23 – Ezekiel 48

Day 56 Daniel 1 – Daniel 12

Day 57 Hosea 1 – Hosea 14

Day 58 Joel 1 – Joel 3

Day 59 Amos 1 – Amos 9

Day 60 Obadiah 1

Day 61 Jonah 1 – Jonah 4

Day 62 Micah 1 – Micah 7

Day 63 Nahum 1 – Nahum 3

Day 64 Habakkuk 1 – Habakkuk 3

Day 65 Zephaniah 1 – Zephaniah 3

Day 66 Haggai 1 – Haggai 2

Day 67 Zechariah 1 – Zechariah 14

Day 68 Malachi 1 – Malachi 4

NEW TESTAMENT

Day 69 Matthew 1 – Matthew 28

Day 70 Mark 1 – 16

Day 71 Luke 1 – Luke 12

Day 72 Luke 13 – Luke 24

Day 73 John 1 – John 21

Day 74 Acts 1 – Acts 15

Day 75 Acts 16 – Acts 28

Day 76 Romans 1 – Romans 16

Day 77 1 Corinthians 1 – 1 Corinthians 16

Day 78 2 Corinthians 1 – 2 Corinthians 13

Day 79 Galatians 1 – Galatians 6

Day 80 Ephesians 1 – Ephesians 6

Day 81 * Philippians 1 – Philippians 4 (Morning)

                Colossians 1 – Colossians 4 ( Afternoon)

                1 Thessalonians 1 – 1 Thessalonians 5 (Bedtime)

Day 82 2 Thessalonians 1 – 2 Thessalonians 3 (Morning)

                1 Timothy 1 – 1 Timothy 6  (Afternoon)

                2 Timothy 1 – 2 Timothy 4 (Bedtime)

Day 83 Titus 1 – Titus 3 (Morning )

                Philemon 1 (Afternoon)

                Hebrews 1 – Hebrews 13 (Bedtime)

Day 84 James 1 –  James 5  (Morning)

                1 Peter 1 – 1 Peter 5 (Afternoon)

                2 Peter 1 – 2 Peter 3 (Bedtime)

Day 85 1 John 1 – 1 John (Morning)

                2 John 1 (Afternoon)

                3 John  (Bedtime)

Day 86 Jude 1

Day 87 Revelation 1 – Revelation 6

Day 88 Revelation 7 – Revelation 18

Day 89 Revelation 19 – Revelation 22

Day 90 – PRAISE!