Week 13 Psalm 86
I was out of town yesterday so didn’t do my regular end-of-the-month reading review (it’s important to keep track so I’ll do that today).
I read Ruth yesterday. (After reading Judges for eight days in-a-row it was a big relief to read Ruth! I like to think that Ruth is a bible-reader’s reward for slogging through the undignified goo of the judges.) So anyway if someone who’d never read any stories in the OT said they wanted a recommendation for one nice OT story to read I’d suggest Ruth. It’s really almost a perfect story. There are other good OT stories. But none are nicer than Ruth.
Yesterday I also read this: teach me your ways, O Lord, that I may live according to your truth! That meant I got an end-of-month reminder about what I’m doing as I’m reading-through. I know that first of all I’m reading to read-through so that by December 31 I’ve gotten to page-396 of my NT. But then secondly I’m also (almost by default) picking up some clues about the ways-of-the-Lord. The Lord has his own particular ways of doing things and while I’m reading I’m puzzling my way through some of them. I think it’d be easier to figure the ways-of-the-Lord if his operations were uncluttered by the complications of human activity. But they aren’t.
Note: quote from Psalm 86:11 (NLT). End-of-the-month reading: Genesis-to-Ruth (236 chapter) + 86 psalms = 322. The Bible has 1189 chapters. I’ve read 27% in 25% of the year.