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It's meaningful to me to see how you continue to move forward with your stated plans. It encourages me to keep doing the same with mine. I praise and thank God for that.

Thanks, Joosep. I have to admit it is a grind. It is definitely becoming more and more challenging. But time and repetition keeps me going... along with support from fellow brothers and sisters in Christ on this site!

Yes, there are moments when for me too it feels like a grind. At that point, I try if I can to slow myself down and take as medicine, as it were, one verse at a time ... as I do that, and hear from God the Holy Spirit, I'm encouraged again :) Some days I'm successful at that, others not.

We're engaged in a spiritual discipline, I believe. A discipline (of Bible reading, of prayer, of other "Christian" activities) doesn't necessarily bear fruit every single moment in which you engage in it, but if it is engaged in in a God-ward fashion, consistently, with perseverance, genuinely and from the heart, in the long run it will bear much, much fruit. It also bulds for the believer a very strong foundation in Jesus Christ.

Amen, Joosep! Amen. It is funny to hear you talk of "bearing fruit." I am in Mark 4 where Jesus is explaining the parable of the sower, to which bearing fruit is a major point. For the record, not a coincidence at all. Just the Spirit working with his children. Thanks, Joosep!

yes, thanks for reminding me about that Moviegoer, about Mark 4 ...