Week 13 I Samuel
Let’s pretend a guy took an Old Testament and tore it up into 39 bundles of pages.
But he did it carefully, splitting the binding with a razor so that each bundle of pages ended up being exactly one OT book.
The guy took 39 manila envelopes and put one bundle in each of them. Then he licked and sealed them.
Let’s pretend the guy hired a pilot.
Then he told 39 of us to go stand in the playing fields up by the Leisure Centre.
Before very long the small plane buzzed over us and the guy dumped the 39 brown envelopes, dark rectangles tumbling out of a blue sky.
Each of us ran to grab one.
So the question is… when I open my envelope and see that I have I Samuel will I be:
Really Happy;
Pretty Disappointed; or
Somewhere in between?
Answer: I can tell you that if I got the I Samuel envelope I’d be pretty pleased – maybe even Top Ten-pleased – especially if the manila envelope pretend-guy had told me that’s all I could read for the next month.
I Samuel has a bunch of really good content. For me it’s a good-fortune-read to close out the first-quarter of 2020.
Note: Whoever got the Psalms envelope would be gloating, I guess. Jeremiah, Genesis, and Deuteronomy would also be top-enders for me. I don’t figure I’d be high-five-ing anyone if I got Song of Solomon, or Obadiah, or Judges.