Read the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 41, 2 Chronicles 15-16
Even Maacah, his mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made a detestable image for Asherah. Asa cut down her image, crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron. But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true all his days.
2 Chronicles 15:16-17 ESV
At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, “Because you relied on the king of Syria, and did not rely on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped you. Were not the Ethiopians and the Libyans a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the LORD, he gave them into your hand.”
2 Chronicles 16:7-8
Fully Relying on God 🐸 – FormerAtheist58
Trust in God – Stephen McWhirter
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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 40, 2 Chronicles 13-14
“Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with their battle trumpets to sound the call to battle against you. O sons of Israel, do not fight against the LORD, the God of your fathers, for you cannot succeed.”
Jeroboam had sent an ambush around to come upon them from behind. Thus his troops were in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them.
And when Judah looked, behold, the battle was in front of and behind them. And they cried to the LORD, and the priests blew the trumpets. Then the men of Judah raised the battle shout. And when the men of Judah shouted, God defeated Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
The men of Israel fled before Judah, and God gave them into their hand. Abijah and his people struck them with great force, so there fell slain of Israel 500,000 chosen men.
Thus the men of Israel were subdued at that time, and the men of Judah prevailed, because they relied on the LORD, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 13:12-18 ESV
There is NONE like the Lord. Rely on HIM – FormerAtheist58
My God Fights for Me – People and Songs
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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 39, 2 Chronicles 10-12
Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?” And they said to him, “If you will be good to this people and please them and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.” But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.
2 Chronicles 10:6-8 ESV
Who are You Listening to? Your Buddies or Your Elders – FormerAtheist58
Let Your Kingdom Come – Sovereign Grace Music
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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 39, Ecclesiastes 11-12
“He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap. As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.”
Ecclesiastes 11:4-5 ESV
“My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh. The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.”
Ecclesiastes 12:12-14 ESV
You DON’T KNOW what God is doing – TRUST HIM! – FormerAtheist58
The Unbelievable – Sovereign Grace Music
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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 37, Ecclesiastes 9-10
Life feels meaningless without having an eternal purpose. I’ve been there. it’s miserable. But there’s a way out!
Ecclesiastes 9:2 ESV — It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.
… [God] has put eternity into man’s heart …
Ecclesiastes 3:11b ESV
Life is Meaningless – But it doesn’t have to be – FormerAtheist58
Jerusalem – CityAlight
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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 36, Ecclesiastes 7-8
Ecclesiastes 7:8-9 ESV — Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.
Being Patient in the Trials – FormerAtheist58
Psalm 126:5-6 ESV — Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy! He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.
1 Peter 1:3-9, 13 ESV — Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls…. Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
I will Wait for You (Psalm 130) – Shane and Shane
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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 35, Ecclesiastes 4-6
Getting personal here.
A man may father a hundred children and live many years. No matter how long he lives, if he is not satisfied by good things and does not even have a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
Ecclesiastes 6:3 CSB
A Stillborn Baby is Better Off? – FormerAtheist58
Be Still my Soul – Sounds like Reign
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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 33, Ecclesiastes 1
Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has been already in the ages before us.
Ecclesiastes 1:10 ESV
None of us – not Elon Musk, not Bill Gates, not President Trump or Charlie Kirk or Billy Graham – can make anything truly NEW. But I know someone who can. Do you know Him?
And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
Revelation 21:5 ESV
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV
All Things – Sovereign Grace
Vanity of Vanities – Nothing is NEW under the Sun – FormerAtheist58
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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 26, Song of Solomon 1
I’ll be using David Guzik’s commentary to better understand the book of “Song of Solomon.” Read it here or download the “Enduring Word Commentary” free from the Apple Store or the Google Store or read Mr. Guzik’s commentary in the Blue Letter Bible app, also available from the Apple Store or Google Store.
Additionally, he has sermons available for you to watch or listen to on his Enduring Word website here.
I’ve excerpted a few of my favorite parts.
David Guzik writes, “The best way to see this book is as a literal, powerful description of the romantic and sensual love between a man and a woman, observing both their courtship and their marriage. It does not give us a smooth chronological story, beginning with the introduction of the couple to one another and ending with their married life together. Instead, it is a collection of “snapshots” of their courting and married life, with the pictures not necessarily in order. Yet, because God deliberately uses the marriage relationship as an illustration of the relationship that He has with His people, we find that this great song of songs illustrates the love, the intensity, and the beauty of relationship that should exist between God and the believer. This is clearly a secondary meaning, sublimated to the plain literal meaning, yet nevertheless valid and important.
“The fact that this “greatest of all songs” focuses on romance and marital love shows us what a high regard God has for the institution of marriage. We might expect that the songs of songs be a song that only praises God instead of one that celebrates love and sensuality within marriage. This idea is decidedly contrary to the negative view towards marriage that came early in the history of the church…. In 386 Pope Siricius commanded that all priests live as celibates, and later this order was extended to include deacons in the church. In this period, many people who were ordained as priests were already married. Leo the Great (440-461), out of concern for these wives, did not allow priests to put their wives away but commanded that the priest and his wife live together as brother and sister — that is, without any sexual relationship. This command led to the rule that a married man could not be ordained as a priest unless he and his wife took a vow that they would live as celibate, and then led further to the refusal to ordain anyone who was or had been married.
“This idea that the truly spiritual cannot or should not be married and enjoy sexual love is not based in the Old Testament. The Old Testament has no word for a bachelor; in Old Testament thinking, there were to be none. Every patriarch was married, all priests were married, and as far as we know every prophet was married except for Jeremiah, who was uniquely commanded by God not to marry (Jeremiah 16:2). Since the office of high priest was hereditary, the high priest had to marry…”
“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine;”
Song of Songs 1:2 ESV
Mr. Guzik comments, “Charles Spurgeon, the great preacher of Victorian England, followed the custom of his age and understood the Song of Solomon primarily as a poetic description of the love relationship between Jesus Christ and His people. In his sermon titled Better than Wine, he drew forth two main points:
Christ’s love is better than wine because of what it is not:
It is totally safe and may be taken without question — you can’t take too much.
It doesn’t cost anything.
Taking more of it does not diminish the taste of it.
It is totally without impurities and will never turn sour.
It produces no ill effects.
Christ’s love is better than wine because of what it is:
Like wine, the love of Christ has healing properties.
Like wine, the love of Christ is associated with giving strength.
Like wine, the love of Christ is a symbol of joy.
Like wine, the love of Christ exhilarates the soul.
Guzik continues, “Marriage-eligible women today should have the same perspective [“rightly do they love you”], considering that the Apostle Paul summarized the responsibility of a wife towards her husband in Ephesians 5:33 with one word: respect. Though it is common – in the words of a modern film – for women to select a man for who he almost is, or to choose him for the man she can make him to be, this is unwise. An unmarried woman should ask herself the serious question: “Can I genuinely respect this man as he is right now? Do I respect him enough to submit to him the way the Bible says a wife should submit?” The maiden of the Song of Solomon had already asked and answered this question.”
Like modern women, the Shulamite maiden worries that her appearance is not good enough but her beloved. Guzik writes, “There is an old story about a thief who broke into a department store and stole nothing; but he switched the price tags. The next day an expensive Swiss watch was marked as being worth $1.50; a fine leather handbag was marked for $1.75. A simple rubber ball for a child was marked for $150.00 and three pencils were marked for $175.00. If people bought or sold at those prices, you would think they were crazy. Yet all the time people value precious attributes and characteristics in other people very cheaply (especially when it comes to love and romance), and they assign high value to attributes and characteristics that are actually worth little.”
Heavenly Father, Thank you for the gift of marriage, for love that remains steadfast even when we’re no longer young fillies and handsome stallions. Thank you for men who faithfully study and teach your Word with honesty and integrity. We pray your blessings on David Guzik, his ministry, and his family. Keep his heart, mind, and life pure and devoted to You. Please teach us and transform us by Your Spirit at work in us. Help us to pursue You single-heartedly. Amen.
Love Never Ends – 1 Corinthians 13:4-10 – Corner Room Music
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