The Bible, in all truth, to me sometimes doesn't have any part in my day. I get up in the morning and have to rush to get to school. I wash up, make my bed, clean my room a bit, dress, eat breakfast, kiss parents goodbye and head out. At school all I do is schoolwork and in the break I get of an hour I catch a snooze if im really tired or try to finish homework. Then I get home, chores pile up or church has something going on and I pay attention to those things. Then I go to sleep at night. Even in church I dont get the right dosage of Christian thinking that comes from an appropriate time given to studying and just reading Scripture.
Now, I try to think to myself... "What's the problem?" I look at my schedule and see that maybe I could make time to read the Bible and dedicate at least 30 min a day, and my grades wouldnt go down, my household wouldnt collapse, church wouldn't suffer and my social life (if I have one) isn't going to get any worse
In retrospect I think that the main cause for me to not really take the time to read the Bible is probably a few of the following things:
1. OVER-CONFIDENCE - It seems that whenever a person, especially a Christian, thinks they know everything already they tend to convince themselves that they dont NEED to read or study anymore what the Bible says, and hence, they forget eventually what the word of God means to them. I myself feel that I fall into temptation easily when Im alone at home or by myself elsewhere, probably due to my own devaluation of God's holy Word.
2. LACK OF INITIATIVE - I feel that maybe since we sometimes believe the illusion there are "so many" Christians out in the world and in our own neighborhoods we tend to think "let them do the work" and we ourselves do nothing to involve our own daily lives in Godly or Biblical activities. We become followers, not leaders, which is what is needed especially in today's modern world.
3. INDIFFERENCE - Some people feel maybe that they have everything down in the "Christian's Checklist" of things needed just to go to heaven. That's all we care about right? Wrong. We can live our lives going to church, singing praise songs, even witnessing to other people, but if we don't study the Bible and routinely remind ourselves of what the purpose of our life is then we will just become air wasters.
4. NO TIME - Our schedules and daily lives demand time for work, school, family, chores and other activities that we are involved in. We need to survive and pay bills, we need to have our social lives and time for our friends, we want to have fun and go out. We probably tend to put God aside because we feel He understands or will automatically forgive us. We feel that, again, we know God already so we dont need to use up time in reading a "boring book" like the Bible (Of course, it is NOT boring, though many people I know would unfortunately think so).
5. BREAKDOWN - Sometimes, especially in myself, our actions and thoughts will begin to slowly break down and crumble as to our faith in the Bible and Jesus Christ. Sometimes Christians might get overexposed to religion all their lives that they will seek things opposite it to run away from the beliefs that were forced upon them. Also, some Christians will lose their faith to discouragement, feelings of rejection, doubts in the credibility of a God and will be swept away by other sins and temptations that offer false fulfillment and sinful feeding of personal desires.
I think that although the reasons above for having no Bible application in our daily lives
might possibly sound commonplace or even logically acceptable (I hope not!), if a Christian gets themselves off the ground, rolls up their sleeves and proceeds to dedicate a personal 1 on 1 time with God through a good reading of the scriptures, as well as dedicating a time of prayer, they will rediscover God and enhance the relationship they might have lost with him a long time ago. I know that's where I'm at. Hopefully this can help you.
