Week 51 Jude
Sometimes I use exercises to help me read through.
They’re kind of Alertness Promotion Tools to try to manage my mental driftage.
I don’t think there’s any single, perfect solution for when my mind wanders but even these half-baked exercises are sometimes okay.
So for example early this year I decided to track the character traits of God. When I found a verse that said something about God – for instance, the Lord is patient – then I’d record it. I found dozens of them; there’s likely dozens in psalms alone. It was a big exercise, took me all year, and likely too big if time is critical.
A simpler one for me was plotting everything the Lord said about money in the gospels.
Anyway I was reading Jude’s warning about church members who had a) denied the Lord Jesus, and b) said the Lord’s rules-for-living were now disregard-able. Jude compared these people to three OT guys: Cain, Balaam, and Korah.
It’s been ten months since I read Moses but I remember that Cain, Balaam, and Korah were on the OT Bad Guys List. So then that got me wondering if I should make that an Alertness Promotion exercise for 2021 – list all the bad guys in the OT.
But realistically I’m thinking I won’t likely do it. It’d be a big job, and pretty complicated, and I’m not sure it’d be much benefit to me.
Note: see Cain: Genesis 4, Balaam: Numbers 22, Korah: Numbers 16.