June! The year is half finished, and those well-intentioned goals for Bible reading crafted last January may seem like they were made an eternity ago. But I believe it is a great time to stop and ask how we are doing. Are we spending more time in God’s Word now than we were a year ago? Are we growing in our love and delight of its treasures? Has our vision of God and his glory increased as we read its pages? Do we sense we are becoming conformed more to the image of Christ because of time in the Scriptures? In a perfect world, we all would answer with a resounding “Yes!” to each question. But I suspect for some of us that is not quite the case. So what’s the solution? One option is to give up and wait for next January to roll around so we can make a fresh batch of goals. But I would suggest a different approach. Regardless of where we are in our devotional lives at the moment, let’s join the Psalmist in praying the prayer of Psalm 119:18: “Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.” (ESV) Steve Fuller, former pastor here at SGCC and Men’s Retreat speaker for us last fall, recently wrote a blog post on this verse. You can read it by clicking here. The article is filled with practical help for growing in our times in the Word, even if we find ourselves struggling. I pray it will be an encouragement. Let’s press on in the reading of God’s Word. January will be here soon enough! –Pastor Greg