How can one maintain joy in their Christian life? Surely, there are many answers, but in any list, reading the Bible should be near the top.

J.C. Ryle, as always, says it well.

“Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading. God has mercifully given us a book which is “able to make [us] wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus” (2 Timothy 3:15). By reading that book we may learn what to believe, what to be, and what to do; how to live with comfort, and how to die in peace. Happy is that man who possesses a Bible! Happier still is he who reads it! Happiest of all is he who not only reads it, but obeys it, and makes it the rule of his faith and practice!” (Take from Practical Religion).

Thank God for His Bible.