The Bible on Shelfari

Amy Letinsky recently put her Bibles on Shelfari, an online “virtual bookshelf” application. After noting that she hadn’t included the Bible as one of her “top ten” books, she writes:

There are a lot of reasons why I put other books ahead of the Bible. Perhaps with my daily devotion to reading it, I’ve made it more of a chore and less of a privilege. There’s also the fact that the Bible can be pretty hard hitting, where Jane Austen isn’t going to convict me of too much, except a little pride, or some prejudice here and there. When I read the Bible, I expect to be transformed, and sometimes, I just want to read for fun, for escapism.

I want to be like the Psalmist who wrote Psalm 119, who can’t get enough of reading the Bible: “Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long” (119:97).

(By the way, the ESV Study Bible is on Shelfari.)

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