Week 9
While I’m reading-through from year-to-year other things are going on. I see things I didn’t see before. Or an old idea develops new connections. Or I get new questions.
Annual re-reads seem to be developmental. Evolutionary. Cumulative. And a lot of my bible content falls into three big groupings:
First are the things I’ve put in the category of Fundamentally & Elementally Rock-Solid Ideas (for instance the Lord has tremendous power. Each year I get reminders of the Lord’s phenomenal and electrifying potency. I just accept it. Mentally reaffirm it.)
Second are things I don’t really understand. They’re ideas I have trouble making good sense of (for instance the Lord’s timing and scheduling of things. If there’s some logic to it I don’t ever seem to get-it. And maybe I never will.)
Third are things I didn’t used to understand but the idea gradually begins to make some better sense. Might sharpen into focus (for instance the linkage between the Lord performing his operations and me doing things. Putting the two together has been slow and things are still fuzzy. Progress at a snail’s-pace. But progress.)
So each year there’s these three things happening on the reader-reception front:
Things I’m pretty sure about and don’t adjust
Things I’m not pretty sure about
Things that seem to be mutating over time.
Note: End of February reading review. Genesis 1 to Deuteronomy 8 + 60 psalms = 221 chapters. That’s ~19% of the bible read in ~17% of the year. So I’m staying on-track.