Bible Study in Romans!

Thankful for His Word! Yesterday, I finish studying in the Book of Romans in ESV (English Standard Version) that I started on January 1st, 2013 and just finish it yesterday (May 7th, 2014). Today, I am reading as a daily overview each chapter in the Book Romans in a different translation that is NASB (New American Standard Bible) and should finish that this month. Thankful for this daily personal Bible Study. After this, Lord willing, I will start 1st John to 3rd John. This time is in smaller books of the Bible. It is very challenging to do this! HT: John MacArthur in his book, How to Study the Bible. That book encourage me to do this way. Thankful for this.  Please do see the picture below!

Hungry for His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

You can see my Romans Bible Study in all 4 notebooks along with  my ESV.

My first notebook in this Romans Bible Study!

My second notebook (loose leaf notebook) in my Romans Bible Study!

My third notebook in this Romans Bible Study!

My fourth and the last notebook in this Romans Bible Study!

My ESV! You can see that I have been working on that!

My NASB for me to read as an overview now. I started this today.

Regular Glasses or Reading Glasses!

Early this morning as I put on my glasses as I was studying in His Word. I was having a very hard time to read His Word and having to squint my eyes to read them and hold my head in the specific angle to be able to read His Word. Then I realized that I had put on wrong glasses which were my regular glasses with bifocal. Then I did put on my reading glasses and was able to read His Word without frustration. I am so thankful for my reading glasses. I just can't understand how people can read through their bifocal glasses. It does make a big difference what kind of glasses we are wearing.

Hungry for His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Early Bird Gets the Worm!

Yes, Early Bird gets the worm! For many years, I had been getting up early due to my job that I had from 1998-2008. I had to be at work 5:30 in the morning and sometimes earlier than that as needed. Now, I don’t have that job anymore. Yes, it is very hard to break the habit of getting up early at 3:30 or earlier. Well, for number of years, I had to make myself go back to sleep and that wasn't easy either. With the Lord’s help, last month, I gave up making myself go back to sleep after 5:30 in the morning and started a new habit for His Glory.

Now, I am getting up at 5:30 when the alarm clock goes off or before its goes off. I will go to the bathroom and then wash my face to be refreshing for the day. Then I will spend my special quiet time in prayer; spend time studying His Word in the book of Romans, meditating His Word, read the Gospel, memorizing the Fighter Verses from Desiring God, and reading Daily Devotional (currently Holiness Day by Day by Jerry Bridges).

I am finding this way a lot better for me, and I am being more thankful for this special quiet time early in the morning instead of having to find the time during the day to pray, to study in His Word, to read the Gospel, to meditate, to memorize the Fighter Verse, and to read Daily Devotional. The old way was too crazy and thoughtless to my crazy extrovert schedule for the day.

I do thank the Lord for enabling me to have my special early morning quiet time without all the schedule distraction. By the way, I will not turn on the computer until after I have finished my special quiet time first thing in the morning.

Yes, I still am reading other books throughout the day depending on my crazy extrovert schedule for the day. So far, I have read 25 books this year. I am still currently reading a lot of books. Early this year, I made a goal to read 36 books a year or 3 books a month. Yes, I am ahead of my goal. Last year, I read 49 books and the Bible twice (one time in book form and one time online).

I would encourage you all to have a consistent fix schedule of quiet time in prayer, studying in His Word, meditating in His Word, reading the Gospel, and memorizing His Word (Fighter Verses by Desiring God). You will be amazed by how much better to have a consistent fix schedule in spending time in His Word. I am thankful that I changed from my bad habit of going back to sleep in longer into getting up early to have this wonderful special quiet time for His Glory. If I can do it, then you can do it. 

Hungry for His Word,

‘Guerite ~ BoldLion

Happy New Year 2013!

Happy New Year 2013!

Yes, I know that I haven't been written much blog posts this past year 2012. Yet, I can't promise for this year either. Yet, I do want to write more and to encourage you all in every way too.

Mainly, I do want to encourage you all to live your life for Christ this year all the more which is very important goal too.

Have you started your Daily Bible Reading Plan yet? If not, I would encourage you all to start this with the Lord's help. You can't do this without His help. There are many Daily Bible Reading plan out there. I have been doing this for numbers of years, but I am planning to start a whole different Bible plan for this year, so that I can focus more in His Word instead just reading through it. My plan is to focus on the book of Romans which is one of my favorite books in the Bible. Just a bite size, I just did Romans 1:1-7, this morning and will focus more through out the day and this week too. There isn't any set scripture reading schedule per day like regular Daily Bible Reading plan or checklist plan, but it is to fully focus on it as I move along in His Word.

Last year, 2012, with the Lord's help, I have read 49 books a year which is more than I expected to read. My goal is that I do hope to read at least 36 books this year (3 books a month) with His help. The truth is that I mostly read theological books. This past summer, I did read number of fictions, and that is why I had read 49 books this year. I am on Goodreads online too. I am a slow reader too, and I prefer to dig and dig as I read through theological books. If I am reading fiction, I will speed read through that book with enjoyment.

This past summer, a wonderful friend blessed me with Kindle Touch. I am so thankful for this and love it and taken it with me everywhere I go.  It is a great investment to have and a great gift to give someone that loves to read all the time. I was able to download a lot of wonderful free e-books and almost nothing to the cost to buy some great e-books. If you are on a limit budget to buy books, I would encourage you all to get an Kindle to read, and you will be amazed how much you can save by owning your very own Kindle.

There are number of Kindle that you can get. As for me, I love my Kindle Touch and wouldn't trade that in for Kindle Paperwhite, or Kindle Fire, or whatever Kindle out there. I didn't want another computer screen to read books from. I love e-ink on Kindle Touch which came out before Paperwhite did. Later, I did compared my Kindle Touch with  Kindle Paperwhite. I prefer e-ink over Paperwhite. You will have to pick out whatever that will works the best for you. Please do go to Staples or whatever store that does carry Kindle or Nooks or other e-book reader and compare them before you buy them online through Amazon or somewhere else.

Please do subscribe to get Gospel e-books email. You can find a lot of free e-books or almost no cost e-books through Gospel e-books. FYI, I  just gotten one free e-book that is Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue by R.C. Sproul which is special today only.

Does your church have a church's library? If not, you can help them to get that started. Talk to your pastor about this. Yes, I started Christ Baptist Church's Library in the beginning of 2012 from no book to 35 books as of right now, and more books are on the way too. I can't wait to get them when they do come.  No Library budget! No problem! That is not problem, and don't worry about that! We didn't have any library budget either. How can I get the books without a budget? Here is a great news, you can start entering the books giveaway contest like I did, and that is how I keep winning them. Today, I just won another one. If you follow me on Twitter or on Facebook, you can keep up with me whatever books giveaway contest out there that I have enter and enter them. We can't win every one of them, but we can at least win some of them. I haven't yet win any Tim Challies' Free Friday yet, but one of these days when I will win them, and I will shout from the roof top when I do win them. Yes, there are a lot of books giveaway contest out there, but there are some which is no-no to enter to win them. You will have to judge whether to enter the contest or not.  Yes, I would encourage you all to start a church's library. FYI, I used Library Thing online for Church Library to keep record what books that we do have. It is free up to 200 books then one time lifetime fee which is like $25 for lifetime I think or that might have changed since then.

Here are the list of books that I had read last year, 2012:

1.       All of Grace by C. H. Spurgeon

2.       Taste and See by John Piper

3.       The Murder of Jesus

4.       Delivered by Desire by Daryl Wingerd

5.       Why God Gave Us a Book by Gene Edward Veith

6.       How to Study the Bible by John MacArthur

7.       Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die by John Piper

8.       Respectable Sins by Jerry Bridges

9.       Discussion Guide Respectable Sins by Stephen Sorenson

10.   God Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Life by Ray Comfort

11.   Tortured for Christ by Richard Wurmbrand

12.   Dug Down Deep by Joshua Harris

13.   Revolution in World Missions by K.P. Yohannan

14.   Get Wisdom 23 Lessons for Children about Living for Jesus by Ruth Younts

15.   The Visitation by Frank Peretti

16.   Poems by C.S. Lewis

17.   Monster by Frank Peretti

18.   Hangman's Curse (The Veritas Project) by Frank Peretti

19.   Nightmare Academy (The veritas Project) by Frank Peretti

20.   ProLife Answers to ProChoice Arguments by Rany Alcorn

21.   The Dwelling Place by Elizabeth Musser

22.   The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis

23.   The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis 24.   The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis 25.   Prince Caspian By C.S. Lewis 26.   The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis 27.   The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis 28.   The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis 29.   Lord Foulgrin’s Letters by Randy Alcorn 30.   Choosing Gratitude by Nancy Leigh DeMoss 31.   No Longer A Slumdog by K.P. Yohannan 32.   Weight of a Flame by Simonetta Carr 33.   What is a Healthy Church Member? By Thabiti M. Anyabwile 34.   Heaven by Randy Alcorn 35.   Modest by RW Glenn and Tim Challies (Cruciform) (e-book in my Kindle Touch)

36.   A GodWard Life by John Piper

37.   The Glory of Christ by John Owen 38.   What is the Gospel? By Bryan Chapell (TGC) 39.   The Apostle: The Life of Paul by John Pollock (e-book in my Kindle Touch) 40.   The Explicit Gospel by Matt Chandler 41.   How Then Should We Think by Julian M. Motley 42.   Grace Abounding by John Bunyan (e-book in my Kindle Touch) 43.   Awaiting Savior by Aaron Armstrong (e-book in my Kindle Touch) 44.   Gospel by J D Greear 45.   Cruciform: Living the Cross-Shaped Life by Jimmy Davis (e-book in my Kindle) 46.   Lies Women Believe by Nancy Leigh DeMoss  47.   Good News of Great Joy by John Piper (e-book in my Kindle Touch) 48.   The Christ of Christmas: Readings for Advent by Calvin Miller (e-book in my Kindle Touch) 49.   Innocent Blood by John Ensor (e-book in my Kindle Touch)

I do have a lot to learn and to do this year. I am looking forward for that in every way! Let us live our life for Christ all the more.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Psalm 4:1

I had a wonderful time out of the house this morning when I was dog sitting and kitty cat sitting. I took my Bibles and books with me so that I can spend my time in His Word this morning away from this computer. After I fed Macy, the kitty-cat, I went to sit down and got my Bible for daily Bible reading and before start reading His Word, I was praying. Then after praying, I opened to Psalm 4 and just right before reading His Word, Macy MEOW and MEOW so loud as if she was crying. I had to put down my Bible to go over to see what is the problem. She just wanted attention and love and rub. After that is done, I went back and to start reading Psalm 4.


Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness!
You have given me relief when I was in distress.
Be gracious to me and hear my prayer! Psalm 4:1 ESV 


When I read that, I am reminded how we are like Macy crying for comfort and relief when we are in distress.


Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Have You Start Your Daily Bible Reading Yet?

Since today is the first day of the second month, it isn't too late to start your Daily Bible Reading. I would encourage you all to start this today if you haven't done so.

I am so thankful that I am doing this for the 4th years and love it. My first year was good, and the second year was so-so due to crazy not fix shift schedule. Last year was the best, and I added Advent Reading for the first time last year.

This year I am challenging to do more than last year since I am doing double Daily Bible Reading (one in the morning and one in the evening), and I love it so far in the first month and looking forward to continue through out the year. Later this year, I will be doing Advent Reading.

I am trying to find a great Lent scripture reading before Resurrection Sunday. Currently and for the time being, I am reading The Murder of Jesus by John MacArthur as an Lent reading. Please do click on Bible Reading Plan on this, and you will see a lot of different kind of Bible Reading Plan that you can do. I am sure there is one that might fit perfectly for you.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Proverbs 28:10

While I was at El Tap, I was working on my Bible Study homework and eating Proverbs 28 for the day. I am learning something new that I didn't catch before as I reading or eating His Word. Proverbs 28:10 ESV 

Whoever misleads the upright into an evil way
will fall into his own pit, 
but the blameless will have a goodly inheritance. Proverbs 28:10 ESV 

For many year I had read that "goodly" as "godly" until I realize it said "goodly" which is a very unusually word for me to see. Then I had to look into other translation such as NASB in my Palm Pilot  T-E that I had with me to make sure "Is that suppose to be "godly" instead of "goodly"? I learn goodly is correct, but NASB use "good" instead of "goodly". I thought that is odd to use goodly. At least, now I know it is not godly but goodly. It is amazing how I can miss one important letter of the word "o".

He who leads the upright astray in an evil way 
Will himself fall into his own pit, 
But the blameless will inherit good. Proverbs 28:10 NASB

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

This is How I Study for my Bible Study Homework!

This is how I study for my Bible Study homework at home in my dinning room. Yes, you will see my 4 Bibles out and plus a printed out chapter of whatever I am studying on. Also one Dictionary for me. Teal Green Bible is my NASB'77 on the far right. Then beside that above the clipboard right of my cup is a Parallel Bible of KJV/ NIV'84 which I almost never use but use that to look up the word that my Bible teacher might be using that isn't in my ESV or NASB. On the left of my cup is my NASB'95. My old worn ESV is right at my tip and tipping on from my dictionary. We are not to use any Study Bible since we aren't allow that. Two clipboards but most of the time just one clipboard. Let me share with you another blog post how I studied away from home when I go out to eat. We all do need a special place to study His Word without being distracted.


Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

1,169 Chapters!

What book would have 1,169 chapters? Please keep reading on below to find the answer to that question.

After eating His Word this morning, I did some math work how many chapters a day do we all need to be reading the Bible daily through out the whole year in order to read the whole Bible in one year without repeating the same book again.

I have added all the chapter of the Bible together, and there are 1,169 chapters. Whoa! That is a lot of chapters to read. But then I have divided that by 365 days which came to be roughly at 3.20 chapters a day to read. MMMM!!!! That doesn't seems to be that much to read a day. Also, I know that we can read that many chapters in a day. Am I right about that?

So, I do really want to encourage you all to read His Word daily. I know that you can do it.

By the way, I am currently reading 4 chapters day and plus another chapter from Psalms or Proverbs daily. That means that I will be reading Psalms, Proverbs and the New Testament twice a year. Currently, I am using Justin Nale's Bible Reading Plan. I also have written a post that I am going start using his Bible Reading Plan. I have already started this morning. It was so YUMMY!

There are so many different kind of Bible Reading Plans out there. Please do check them out. I also had posted many different kind of Bible Reading Plan on this blog too. You can go to labels "Bible Reading Plan" and click on that, and you will see all the posts I had written about "Bible Reading Plan".

We all do need to be reading His Word daily too.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Bible Reading Checklist

I had to share this blog with you about the Bible Reading Checklist post from my pastor, Justin Childers.

There are many way to read the Bible Through out the year daily. Please read my recent and old posts about Bible Reading Plan.

I really do want to encourage you all to read the Bible Daily through out the year. We all do need to be eating His Word daily.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

“Read the Bible for Life” One-Year Chronological Plan

I saw this post “Read the Bible for Life” One-Year Chronological Plan on Kingdom People this morning and had to share this with you about this Bible Reading Plan for Life. It is in one year chronological plan.

We all do need to be eating His Word daily!

Please see my post that I did yesterday about Bible Reading Plan for 2011.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Bible Reading Plan for 2011

We all do need to have a Bible Reading Plan every year. I know that we all want to change and do differently each year. I too want to change my Bible Reading Plan too.

I did very well in 2009, but I didn't do well this year, 2010. Which is an big OUCH! I have been wanting to have a different Bible Reading Plan. I have been wanting to kick myself for not doing the job this year. On the other hand, I have been eating His Word just about daily that isn't part of the Daily Bible Reading Plan which is better than not eating His Word. So therefore, this year, 2010, I didn't read the whole Bible again like I did in 2009.

I am aware that not all Bible Reading Plan are tailor to fit for your style of reading. There are a lot of different kind of Bible Reading Plan out there for you to try.

This coming year, 2011, Lord willing, I will try Justin Nale's Bible Reading Plan. I do like this kind of Bible reading plan for not having to jump around but reading it straight through each books daily. I do hope and pray this will work great for me. With this reading plan, we will be reading through both Old Testament and New Testament monthly along with Psalms daily expect for the first month. The first month will be Proverbs. We will be reading through New Testament twice in a year.


I wrote a post last year about the Bible Read in 2010. You can see other kinds of Bible Reading Plan with its website link that I had posted on that.

We all do need to be hungry to eat His Word daily! I do want to encourage you all to have a Bible Reading Plan too!

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

HT: Justin Nale

BoldLion at Pizza Inn!

Sometimes ago, I wanted to post this BoldLion pictures when I wrote a blog about BoldLion Eating His Word. So today, I had a chance to do this at Pizza Inn and got a free lunch too. Thank you, Pizza Inn for free yummy lunch and wonderful waitress too. The Lord is so good.

This picture does show you how I normally eat His Word (the Bible), eating a wonderful godly book, (Communion with God by John Owen in this pictures) and yummy Pizza, homemade crackers, and iced tea too.

I had to borrow glasses from Mr. Potato Head (from the nursery at Christ Baptist Church of Wilson), and I am so thankful that I was able to borrow his glasses for this pictures.

We all need to be eating His Word daily.

I see that my pens and highlighter are somewhat hidden. They were between my book and the plate of yummy homemade crackers. I also know that you see my regular bifocal glasses on the table too. That is because I wear my reading glasses when I am eating His Word or reading a book.

When I took the first picture (the bottom one), I realize that I needed to move some things (my glasses case and cell phone) out of sight.

Also, I am having a lot of fun with my wonderful new digital camera. The Lord is so good too.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

BoldLion Eating His Word!

Yes, I am having fun with my new digital camera. I always wanted to take this kind of pictures. Really, I need to take him (my Lion) out with me to eat at Pizza Inn. That will show you all how I normally eat His Word (Bible) with books, Pizza, homemade crackers, and iced tea with lemon! Of course, my color pens, highlighter, and Palm Pilot would be in the pictures too.

Plus, I need to borrow the glasses from Potato Head to put on BoldLion for pictures. I do hope that will work.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Eating His Word Daily for 2011

It is a real challenge to be eating His Word Daily as a One Year Bible Reading plan. This is my second year of doing this. The first year was in English Standard Version (ESV), and this year is in New American Standard Bible (NASB).

As I had been eating His Word in One Year Bible Reading Plan, I realized that I want to be eating His Word in One Year Chronological Bible Reading Plan in the year of 2011. But when I saw what kind of reading plan that was, and I wasn't too happy about that. Why? Because I was hoping that it would include both Old Testament, New Testament, Psalm and Proverbs for Daily Bible reading in Chronological Bible Reading Plan. When I saw that didn't include that. But the One Year Bible Reading Plan did. MMMM!!!

Now, I am trying to find a different Chronological Bible Reading Plan that will included both Old Testament, New Testament, Psalm and Proverbs for Daily Bible reading plan. I especially want Chronological in the Old Testament to keep my head clear and thinking straight through. Now, the New Testament doesn't have to be Chronological because I can easily grasp it clearly without any problem.

Does anyone understand what I am getting here? Is there any Bible Reading plan like what I am talking about out there? I do hope that you all can help me to find that kind of reading plan!

We all do need to be eating His Word daily.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Hungry to Eat His Word Cake!

Recently, someone posted this Young, Restless & Reformed Cake on Desiring God Blog. I love this cake idea because I am hungry to eat His Word.

My favorite scripture is:
16 Thy words were found and I ate them,
And Thy words became for me a joy and the delight of my heart;
For I have been called by Thy name,
O LORD God of hosts. Jeremiah 15:16 NASB'77

16 Your words were found, and I ate them,
and your words became to me a joy
and the delight of my heart,
for I am called by your name,
O LORD, God of hosts. Jeremiah 15:16 ESV

Now, this is the kind of cake idea that I would like to have for my birthday and of course at my funeral, so that they too can be eating His Word and to get to know Him.

Really, we all do need to be hungry to eat His Word daily and to live by it too.

Now, I am hungry to eat this cake with His Word.

Hungry to eat His Word,

'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Celebrating the ESV App! Win an iPod Touch!

Here I am to enter into this contest! This will be tricky for me since I don't tweet. I also don't listen to whatever gadgets is out there since I am deaf but oral educated. I can't lipread on whatever gadgets. But I love ESV and would love to get one of those ESV app and to win iPod Touch! I do have an old Palm Pilot T-E (not T-E2). I do have 12 Bible translations on it along with Bible Dictionary and other commentaries. I do have ESV Study Bible to down load onto my Palm Pilot, but my Window Vista can't download it since Palm Pilot is obsolete according to them. OUCH! I will need something more up to date like iPod Touch which I can't afford to buy.

Why do I want a ESV or other Bible Translations on iPod? I am always hungry to eat His Word. Let go to Jeremiah 15:16 NASB'77: Thy words were found and I ate them, And Thy words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart; For I have been called by Thy name, O Lord God of hosts. (I had memorize this NASB'77 translation before I got my first ESV in the fall of '06 and fell in love with ESV. I still love my NASB'77.)

Every time, I am away from home, I only take with me is my ESV and whatever book that I am currently reading and my Palm Pilot. There are times that I need to look up in other translations, or in commentary, or Study Bible Note to study "eat" His Word.

Please do spread the word out there in order to win this wonderful contest. I do hope, Lord willing that I will win one of these.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Don't Waste Your Life By Not Eating His Word!

Yes, we can't afford to waste our life by not eating His Word daily.

Just because we all were snowbound and worship service was cancel due to the danger on the road. This doesn't give us the excuse to skip the worship at home. I am thankful for the opportunity for this to teach me a lesson today. I am also thankful that Justin Childers, our pastor at Christ Baptist Church of Wilson had email us that worship service had to be cancel, and he also gave us an assignment what we should be doing on Sunday morning.

Our assignment was to read the entire book of Philippians and be praying for our members of CBCW along with Philippians 1:9-11. I also did pray for the regular attender as well as the members of CBCW. Sing some songs of the faith. And also to listen to one of his sermon that we had missed. What a wonderful time I had this morning. Thank you, Justin for having us to do this at home. I do thank the Lord for you.

Now, on the other subject again about Don't Waste Your Life By Not Eating His Word.

It isn't too late to start reading your Bible daily and meditation daily too. Last year, I did read the whole ESV Bible daily, and I am doing this again this year in NASB (New American Standard Bible) and with meditations (Taste and See by John Piper) for the first time this year. I can tell you how bless I was to do this and still am thankful for the time to eat His Word daily. I would encourage you all to do the same thing. If I can do it, then you can do it.

We all need to be hungry to eat His Word daily! It is YUMMY to eat His Word and reviving the soul.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Bible Read in 2010

This year, 2009 is my first year to read the whole Bible for the first time on my own! It is a true blessing to do that. I had been using The One Year Bible ESV. I can't wait to finish it tomorrow night (Dec 31st).

Lord willing in the 2010, I will be reading through NASB updated (can't find the '77 that isn't updated), but I couldn't find The One Year Bible NASB in hardback and brand new. So, someone gave me enough money for me to buy NASB that isn't a Study Bible. I will be reading this throughout the year with the One Year Plan bookmark for that.

I am aware of Discipleship Journal Bible Reading Plan, and I do think that is great. I rather read every day instead of skipping days.

I would encourage other to read the Bible throughout the year in

Discipleship Journal Bible Reading Plan

the One Year Bible Plan

ESV Bible Reading Plan.

Justin's blog

Randy's blog

Justin Taylor's blog and another one from Justin Taylor's blog .

We all need to be hungry to eat His Word daily.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

HT: Justin Childers; Randy Alston; Justin Taylor

Old English vs. Today's English

I get my daily email from The Daily Spurgeon and love it.

I was reading from In praise of grace, then I read this verses below that was posted in their blog. Then I got lost reading what I had read and saw the word "meat" in that verse.

I had to look up to see what does that means or to find out if that was a typo which I like to find on blog, books, or anything that is written. Then I had to look into some translations that I like to use, then at the last request is to look into KJV.

37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, 38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. Luke 7:37-38 KJV

Other translations used: reclining (ESV, NASB), and sat (NKJV). I did look into NIV  and NLT, but that is "was eating".

Do we used the word "meat" as for reclining or sat? NO! We don't currently use that word "meat" as for reclining or sat. To us, meat is food that we do eat such as chicken, beef, or pork.

It does matter what kind of translations that we are currently reading, and how do we understand each word correctly without being lost in understanding what does this mean.  I still thought it is odd to use the word "meat", but in the good old day in the 1600's or 1700's,  people would understand that word correctly, but now in the 21st century, it isn't what we think it means. It does make a big difference what kind of translations we should get or use to study on.

As for me, I am not KJV only, but I do used a lot of different translations such as ESV, NASB, NKJV and others. I do look into KJV when needed.

Let us not be KJV only, but let us be for Christ Alone.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion