Grace’s Own Daily, Chronological Bible
October 4th, 2007 at 6:03 pm (Home, Bible)
Recently we gave Grace her own nice, pink “Girl’s Bible” that was in NASB. 
Since the Lord had used Christy to teach Grace to read, we thought it was time for her to start reading the Bible every day on her own. We even bought a blue Boy’s NASB for Stephen for later. We figured that it would be good since it was a real word for word translation (the main one we as parents use) and just had a girly pink cover. However, once we opened it up we noticed that there were ‘devotions’ for young girls. Well that usually means trouble (since it’s basically adding man’s word to God’s word). Sure enough, the ‘devotions’ were worldly and tainted the meaning of Scripture. It seems they were written with a worldly-wise young ‘tweener’ in mind. In other words, they were assuming girls already had bad attitudes, independent spirits, despised parents and siblings, etc. So even though we had already given the Bible to Grace (bad decision before reviewing it thoroughly), and she was so excited about it, we had to tell her that we’d take it away and get her a better Bible.
Praise the Lord, someone GAVE us this new Bible called “Day by Day Kid’s Bible“.
Christy received it through “Paperback Swap“. This time we thoroughly read through it and checked it out. There are NO “devotions”, worldly or otherwise. Now, interestingly it’s not NASB, it’s its own translation made especially for readers on a 2nd grade reading level. So praise the Lord, Grace can read it all by her self (with the help of the Lord!). Another great thing about it is that it’s a daily Bible, in other words, it breaks up the entire Bible into portions with dates on it. So today she’s reading the portion for October 4th. Another neat feature of the Bible is that it is chronological, so David’s psalms are placed within the different accounts of his life, etc. Of course we’ve had other children’s Bibles, but they’re either in an adult translation which she would need help with reading many of the big words or they are simply story books that don’t give the entire Bible accounts of all the priestly duties, prophets, etc. Anyways, all this to tell you that Grace just LOVES her Bible. She reads so much that many days she is ahead of the ‘date’ she should be on, so we gave her a bookmark and she’s reading in two places now. Since we gave her the Bible in August, she just started right on that date, but now with her ‘extra’ reading she’s also reading in ‘January’ as well. Grace is learning so much from reading her Bible, it’s really exciting to watch. And now Christy is reading along with her in Christy’s daily, chronological Bible as well. So it’s a real joy. You can click on this picture to read more on the author’s website, it even has sample pages from the Bible. Highly recommended for 1st and 2nd graders. Please continue to pray for Grace “that the eyes of her heart may be enlightened, so that she will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.” Eph 1:18
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