The best way to get into the habit of daily scripture study is to set a goal. Just make sure you figure out how to develop an effective goal through S.M.A.R.T. goal setting: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Trackable/Time-bound.
For this year, 2012, the Gospel Doctrine study is of the Book of Mormon. However, choosing to study the Old Testament, New Testament, Doctrine and Covenants, or Pearl of Great Price in addition gives you extra bonus points.
Are you going to study by pages or by chapters? Pages seem to work fairly well since they average out to about the same amount of time per page, whereas chapters can vary greatly in length. You may do a lot of reading one day (Jacob chapter 5) and much less the next. Personally, I prefer studying by chapters rather than pages because it gives a definitive starting and ending point.
You can use the following chart to determine your goal:
| LDS Scriptures |
Pages
|
Chapters
|
| Book of Mormon |
531
|
239
|
| Doctrine and Covenants |
291
|
138
|
| Pearl of Great Price |
59
|
15
|
| Old Testament |
1184
|
929
|
| New Testament |
403
|
260
|
| Entire Standard Works |
2468
|
1581
|
So, for example, if I set a goal to read two chapters per day in the Book of Mormon, it would take 120 days to accomplish this. Thus I could read through the entire Book of Mormon three times by the end of the year.
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Very insightful! I love reading the Book of Mormon and I have been doing it by chapters. It seems easier that way for me to remember where I left off. Thanks for this! It is great to know that there are other people that are making similar goals.
I like doing it by pages because you can do one page at a time and really get into the pages or the content of the page that you are studying. I like to look at what is written within the Book of Mormon rather trying to race through the chapters. It is easier for me to liken the scriptures unto myself because then I am thinking about it all day long and applying the principles that are located within the sacred book of scripture. I think if you want to do it the other way you can because we all have different ways of studying the scriptures. I think as long as we are reading the scriptures and taking in what we need to learn that it doesn’t matter how we do it as long as we just do it.
I never said that I was racing through the scriptures but rather I liked to do the chapters because it is easily forgotten in where I left off. Maybe you should not pass judgement because of how I study the scriptures.
I am sorry if it came off as I was making you feel like I was passing judgement on you. I just thought it would be easier to do pages because then you could get more information out of each page rather than chapters since they vary.
Personally, I think as long as the spirit teaches us the importance of the scriptures and the content that lies in them it matters not how we do it rather it is pages or chapters. It is important that you let the spirit guide you in what you do when it comes to reading so that your mind may be invigorated and able to obtain the knowledge in what your Heavenly Father wants you to learn.