Week 44 Romans
Something I’m usually hoping for when I sit down to read is a decent Level of Concentration. Unfortunately Level of Concentration is something I just either have or don’t have from day-to-day. I don’t know any tricks to make sure I have a High Level of Concentration; no strategies to avoid a Low Level of Concentration. Seems to be a matter of pure chance.
Anyway I usually tend to think that I’ll be in better shape if I start with an HLC. But I’m into Romans now and I realize that even a sky-high HLC won’t solve everything because an HLC – by definition – relates to Concentration. Meaning it doesn’t relate to a critically & totally different issue: Level of Understanding.
I was reading Romans 7 today.
If I started reading Romans 7 with an LLC I would be doubly-frustrated because LLC + Low Level of Understanding = frustration (x2).
If I started reading Romans 7 with an HLC I would only be singly-frustrated because HLC + Low Level of Understanding = frustration.
Even an extremely HLC doesn’t bail-me-out if I just don’t get it. All it does is help me concentrate in a much higher & more focused & intent mental state about something I don’t really get.
Note: Ten-months of 2021 are gone so I checked my reading progress. Even though I kind of idled through John and Acts I calculate that I’ve read about 91% of the bible as of today. So that means with 16% of the year to go I’m in pretty good shape.