Week 14 the day after Easter
Yesterday was Easter Sunday – March 31 2024. Millions of people all around the world affirmed: Jesus Is Risen Indeed! I don’t know most of them but it’s pretty nice to be part of that big a company of believers.
So that was yesterday. Today is the first day of April and that means the beginning of the second quarter of the year. 2024 is 25% gone.
I checked my reading progress for January-March. I‘ve read the 236 chapters from Genesis – Ruth + 89 psalms. 325 chapters. That means I’m 27.3% through the bible in 25% of the year. I’m just a small step ahead of schedule but I feel satisfied with that.
Note: I got bogged down again in Judges this year. I think one big problem with being a 21st-century bible reader reading through the OT is that I’m a 21st-century bible reader. What that means is that I’m left trying to dope-out the point of 3,000 year-old stories that seem to feature cutthroat violence & ruthless lawlessness & anarchic malevolence & dog-eat-dog vendetta murder theft torture and degradation.
It’s very hard to do but one of the basic challenges for a bible reader – under these circumstances – is to ferret out the Main Things:
> I try to sift out the dreadful & non-fundamental things (leave them in the Residual Pile)
> I try to focus on lastingly important things (the Fundamentals)
> Finally…I hope and pray for some assistance (at some point the Lord has to start turning on some lights for me. Otherwise the bible stays a Dark Book).