You’re not going to understand everything you read, and that’s normal.
You’re reading the words of the Creator of the universe. By definition, you’re not going to grasp all of it on the first pass. Some of it will be clear. Some of it won’t.
There are a few reasons for that. Sometimes it’s context. You might be reading something that connects to a part of the Bible you haven’t gotten to yet. Sometimes it’s cultural. What was obvious to the original audience isn’t always obvious now. And sometimes it just doesn’t land. You read it and move on without much sticking.
That doesn’t mean you’re doing it wrong.
I had a reminder of that when my kids found some old cassette tapes. They could tell it had something to do with music from the labels, but beyond that it didn’t make much sense. They didn’t have a frame of reference for how it worked or why it existed.
They weren’t missing intelligence. They were missing context.
This works the same way. You won’t get everything immediately, but if you stay with it, more of it will start to make sense.
That’s the point of the structure here. You’ll come back around to these same passages again. When you do, some of what didn’t make sense before will start to. Not all at once, but enough to notice.
If something doesn’t click, keep moving. You’re not trying to master it in one read. You’re building familiarity over time.
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