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The Importance of Reading, part 2 of 2

Reading helps to develop your mind. Just like the body needs exercise, the mind needs exercise if it is going to perform better. Reading is the way we exercise our mind. Without reading on a regular basis you will have a lazy mind.

Reading will help you to better focus on what you are doing. Focus will help you to get more from the preaching at church. It will also help your children to learn better at school and help you do a better job on everything that you do. You will not excel as you should in life, without having a mind that can focus; this focus will be developed through reading.

Reading will help to improve your memory. Poor memory is due to a lack of using your memory. No mental exercise! A better memory will help you to remember where verses are in the Scriptures and to memorize the Scriptures more easily. If you want to improve your memory, then start reading more.

Reading will help you to improve your vocabulary. Improving your vocabulary will help you to be a better soul winner, help you to better teach others, and it will help you to better understand the Scriptures.

Reading will help improve your creativity. Creativity is helpful when teaching lessons as a Sunday school teacher, keeping your children interested in what you are teaching them, and it will help you to be a better employee on the job.

Reading will help improve your discipline. It takes discipline to make yourself sit down and read. Discipline will help you to avoid temptation. Discipline will help you to do things when you don’t feel like doing them, and it will help you to finish more tasks in life.

Reading will help you to become a thinker. You will never be a good leader until you become a good thinker. Reading will help you to learn to think for yourself and to not have to be someone who needs someone else to think for you. One often allows television to think for them, with reading you think for yourself.

If you want to be successful in every area of life, you must learn to read, and read good things. The Bible is the most important text book that we own and It will help you become the best Christian, wife, mother, friend, daughter, etc that you can be. Make sure whatever it is you read that it is scripturally sound and that it will help you to grow in your life. Be sure to weekly set time aside to read. You will never become a reader without having a set time to read. Instead of watching the television or browsing the internet, use that time to read.

Reading is not only a command by God for every Christian, but it is also good for you as an individual. Work at becoming a reader, but also work at helping your children to become readers. They may not appreciate it now, but they will appreciate it later on in life when the benefits of reading help them to become better individuals.