wturri78
Puritan Board Freshman
I've been more or less trying to read through the Bible in a year. In fact I've tried several approaches. I've found often that if I miss a day here or there, I end up speed-reading to make up lost ground and keep to a schedule. Lately I've just been working my way through one OT and one NT book together, reading more chapters in the OT. Obviously speed and number of pages are far less important than being transformed by the Scriptures, but my question primarily is this:
Can anybody besides those with encyclopedic knowledge and photographic memories truly benefit from reading 3-4 chapters of certain books every day? Some OT history books, for example, move along and are easy to follow over many chapters. The same isn't the case for prophetic books. I can read 3 chapters in Isaiah and have absolutely no idea what I've just read. The number of references, direct or indirect, to geography, history, important people, etc. can be large and even then interpreting prophecies obviously isn't a simple task. So what benefit can a person derive from reading Scriptures without taking the time to meticulously track down references and be sure one understands and retains what was read?
Is it better to just pick one book and take as long as necessary to really work through it? Realizing of course that at that rate one may never touch some parts of the Bible...
Thoughts?
Can anybody besides those with encyclopedic knowledge and photographic memories truly benefit from reading 3-4 chapters of certain books every day? Some OT history books, for example, move along and are easy to follow over many chapters. The same isn't the case for prophetic books. I can read 3 chapters in Isaiah and have absolutely no idea what I've just read. The number of references, direct or indirect, to geography, history, important people, etc. can be large and even then interpreting prophecies obviously isn't a simple task. So what benefit can a person derive from reading Scriptures without taking the time to meticulously track down references and be sure one understands and retains what was read?
Is it better to just pick one book and take as long as necessary to really work through it? Realizing of course that at that rate one may never touch some parts of the Bible...
Thoughts?