{"id":5342,"date":"2023-09-02T02:39:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T02:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrmacbible.com\/?p=5342"},"modified":"2023-09-02T03:10:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T03:10:46","slug":"feeling-too-tired-to-read-your-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrmacbible.com\/feeling-too-tired-to-read-your-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling too tired to read your Bible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On some days,\u00a0 my brain struggles to read my Bible.\u00a0\u00a0That&#8217;s when I open my Mr. Mac Bible!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch my story here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 960px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-5342-1\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/mrmacbible.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/01_ToBibleReaders_08_31b.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mrmacbible.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/01_ToBibleReaders_08_31b.mp4\">https:\/\/mrmacbible.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/01_ToBibleReaders_08_31b.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Or read my story here:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s the bottom line:<\/strong>\u00a0 When I read illustrated Bibles, I read more, and I comprehend more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s my story:<\/strong> I work hard, I do a lot of analytical design and corporate training development, and work almost every day.\u00a0\u00a0 My health has been a challenge, and I feel rather tired much of the time.\u00a0 I\u2019ve had too much on my plate for quite some time.\u00a0 And on some days, my brain struggles to open my Bible and read through just a handful of verses from the text.<\/p>\n<p>Am I the only one who is struggling with feeling too tired to dig into the text of my Bible?\u00a0 Is anyone else finding it hard to concentrate for more than a minute or two before their minds wander away from reading through the little lines of text, or with reading through more than a few sentences in a day?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not happy to say that my brain seems to prefer watching re-runs of \u201cMonk\u201d, \u201cPsych\u201d, or \u201cPerry Mason\u201d on Amazon Prime instead of opening the text of the scriptures during my work breaks, or during a meal.\u00a0 It seems the more tired I feel, and the more pressure on my brain I feel, the less I want to pour over lines of text.<\/p>\n<p>But then, I started reading the Mr. Mac Bible \u201cillustrated Bibles\u201d for myself, instead of starting with my \u201ctext-only\u201d Bibles.\u00a0\u00a0 And now I\u2019m reading these illustrated Bibles while eating my breakfast, lunch, dinner, or the occasional snack time. \u00a0But here\u2019s the remarkable thing, by keeping an illustrated Bible or two on the kitchen table, where I know that I\u2019m going to sit down multiple times a day to enjoy some food and drink, I find that I \u201cnaturally\u201d want to glance through the illustrated Bibles verse by verse, which is page by page, in a way that is allowing my brain to relax and enjoy the reading while I \u201clook at the pictures\u201d that illustrate each of the verses, one page at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Reading the illustrated Bibles don\u2019t feel overly stressful for me as I\u2019m reading verse-by-verse, as I\u2019m reading, (let\u2019s say) the Book of Acts, the Gospel Of John, or the Book of Genesis.\u00a0 And you know what?\u00a0 To my surprise, I\u2019m reading entire chapters verse-by-verse in one sitting again, and sometimes even more than a few chapters.\u00a0 And I feel like I\u2019m identifying with the characters and the situations being illustrated behind each verse, which is helping me to absorb what\u2019s happening in the text.\u00a0 For example, when I got to the end of the Book of Acts, I broke down and cried when I realized that Paul was about to suffer and die in prison at the hand of Caesar Nero.\u00a0 I felt like I knew Paul, having spent so much time with him in the Book of Acts.\u00a0 Does that sound strange?<\/p>\n<p>In a way, the illustrated Bible helps me \u201cslow down my reading\u201d, not feeling like I\u2019m trying to \u201crush through\u201d to get to the end of a chapter; Instead, slowing down to think about the characters that are experiencing their problems, and experiencing God in these unusual ways, which compels me to read more, and retain more; not always realizing how much of the text I\u2019m reading in each sitting.<\/p>\n<p>There are 33 Mr. Mack Bible illustrated Bible books, which covers over 150 chapters (which adds up to about 20% of the entire Holy Bible). \u00a0So, in my daily Bible devotions, I\u2019m just going from illustrated book to book, and getting through lots of material, and yet I find that I have the mental, spiritual, and emotional energy to engage with the illustrated text of the scriptures deeply.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s because the right side of my brain \u2013 which is the creative imagination side that likes to engage with colors, shapes, and characters, which engages with the left-side of my brain that loves the text, the logic, and the word studies behind each of the verses.\u00a0 It\u2019s like both sides of my brain are working together to bring God\u2019s word to my attention, and to get me past that tired feeling and fatigue.<\/p>\n<p>The Mr. Mack Bibles are illustrated so that the text of the verses combines with the illustrations and characterizations of the pictures assigned to each verse, which help bring me deeper and farther into God\u2019s story of the Bible.\u00a0 And I notice that sometimes while reading the verses and thinking about the situations being illustrated, I stop reading and find myself pondering the meaning of the verses, or the way the illustrations are drawing my attention into the meaning in the text, which is all wonderful!\u00a0 This engagement between the two-sides of my brain is improving my Bible comprehension and keeping me moving forward in the Bible text. And the pictures help me slow down while reading, so I find myself often pausing to \u201ctalk to the Lord\u201d in prayer as we move through His story together.\u00a0 Which is marvelous!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so nice to be back to reading the Bible a verse at a time, a chapter at a time, to truly be thinking about \u201cwhat is happening here\u201d, and what is God bringing to me through the telling of \u201cHis Story\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>So, I encourage others to read the illustrated Bibles as part of their daily devotions.\u00a0 And also, to be diligent to pass-around your copies of the illustrated Bibles to your friends and say, \u201cHey, this book really blessed me!\u00a0 Try it for yourself while you eat breakfast with your kids and bring Bible study devotions back to the table with your family!\u201d\u00a0 And so\u2026 the next thing you know, you\u2019ve got your friends and family reading the illustrated Bible and having that same \u201cmulti-dimensional and multi-media\u201d experience with both the pictures and the verses working together.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s my story.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mac<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On some days,\u00a0 my brain struggles to read my Bible.\u00a0\u00a0That&#8217;s when I open my Mr. Mac Bible! 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