with purpose

I have been out of full-time ministry for about four years and have not had a weekly teaching assignment in over seven months. It's really strange for me to not approach the Scripture looking for the gems that I will get to share with a lot of people in a public setting. It's what I've done since college. Over the last several months I've read and meditated through several books of the New Testament and really enjoyed some of the commentary that I've read to help guide me through the Scriptures. But having just finished Galatians last week, I really wanted something fresh.
I started through the psalms again over the last week and was really enjoying them when I remembered some dusty books on my shelf. I grabbed the first volume of Spurgeon's "Treasury of David" and read through Psalm 1 again and then read the several pages of Spurgeon's sermon and then his exegesis of the passage. It was really pretty awesome to hear his take on these ancient God-breathed poems. I decided that I was going to take one of these psalms every day and then take Spurgeon's thoughts on them and make that my next Bible study project.
So I'm going to start that over tomorrow and take on the 150 psalms and the over 1300 pages by Spurgeon in the next 150 days. Every day a psalm followed by the "Prince of Preacher's" spin on what God wanted us to know. I am really looking forward to hearing his voice on the subjects as well as hearing the Holy Spirit speak into my life. I'm sure that it will be life-changing as I journey through it.
I will blog something about it every day. Sometimes my entries will be very short, and sometimes I'm sure I'll be so fired up that I won't be able to stop writing. My purpose in the blog will be to give me an outlet for some of this, but really it will be so that you can help keep me accountable.(I have a tendency to let personal goals kind of go by the wayside if I don't have someone else helping push me to meet them) Maybe I'll even be able to share something with you that will encourage your walk with Christ. I am really excited about getting up tomorrow morning and working through one of my favorite books in the Scriptures this way.