Little Bit Tired, Little Bit Worn

You know the rest of the saying.

I am still choosing between two books to begin my reading mentioned in the previous post, so this posting doesn’t really have anything to do with that.I am currently reading through a book/booklet (only 83 pages) by R.I. Humberd (who I know nothing about) titled “God’s Man and Satan’s Man In Final Conflict”.

I do not know when the book was published but it seems that Humberd lived between 1893 and 1965, so it was published sometime ago.

At any rate I mention this all because of part of what I read in this booklet tonight and made me think of tonight’s debate and all the other current happenings in the nation and the world, I thought Humberd’s words interesting when considering the above mentioned.

The first block of quotation is the lead in to the part I found interesting when considering as I mentioned, current issues/topics.

When the fulness of the time was come God sent forth His Man. The world rejected Him, and sent back the word to heaven, “We will not have this man rule over us.”

Satan’s man is soon to appear, and it is written, “ALL that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life” (Rev. 13:8).

Let us remind ourselves that A-L-L does not spell S-O-M-E.

All in England the United States, Germany and all over the earth will worship Satan’s man.

The following words are the ones that made me think of the evenings debate, etc…
In specific the words that I have underlined at the very end.

At first this might seem impossible, but let some man be able to solve the earth’s problems, and he will become irresistibly popular over night.

Might we not see some tendencies, in society today, that are paving the way for an enthusiastic reception for Satan’s man?

The world is bidding for a man to solve its financial problems.

Factories are closed, the markets are glutted with merchandise; business is at a standstill; millions are idle.

Mighty intellects are grappling with the knotty problems; great brains are dumb before an impossible task; suffering humanity stands ready to crown a human saviour.

I wonder, were those we saw debating this evening the “mighty intellects”?
If so, we might be in trouble folks.

Don’t tell me as we look at this bailout and the simply ignorant demand for universal health care, energy independence, and saving “mother earth” that at least in lower case letters we are not looking to the government as our saviour.

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I enjoy reading books, I don’t read as much as I once did (there was a time when I could devour a book in a matter of hours) and I surely do not read as much as I’d like.I read books of varying flavors but tend for the most part to favor general literature. In other words, I never have and likely never will read a Tom Clancy novel.

My favorite book is Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, I’ve likely read it fifteen times and know I’ll read it several more times before I return to dust (assuming I don’t return to dust anytime soon).

Charles Dickens of course is a favorite, O. Henry is another, Edgard Allen Poe, you get the idea.

In recent years I’ve began reading a lot of current political books and history as well. Not long ago I read a biography of Chairman Mao which was outstanding.

The point being again, I read books of varying flavors.

I recently finished reading Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, doesn’t quit fall in with Hugo and Dickens I know. A great book in my mind however.

It was from reading Fahrenheit 451 that this Category “Knowing God” for my blog came to mind.

No, there was nothing in the content of the book that was problematic; it was the actual act of reading the book that I felt some kind of conviction once I ended the last page.

The reason being is that when I picked up Fahrenheit 451 I was already in the middle of reading two other books, two books I put aside in order to read Mr. Bradbury’s book.

The two books I put aside were Christian books.

It doesn’t bother me that I intended to read a ’secular’ book and two Christian books at the same time, what bothered me was that I did not read the two Christian books.

I placed them to the side and did not pick them up again until after I had finished with 451.

I was easily sidetracked.
Two books that I was enjoying and learning from I easily ignored for one of pure entertainment.

So the question became how do I stick to my readings of actual importance and true substance?
Also, in answering the above question can I find a way to maybe take more in from those readings?

When I read Christian material I pray about what I am reading, ask that I might learn from what I am reading that something in the material might make me effective for God, bring me closer to Him, but just reading the book, doing some bible reference checks, etc… is not enough.

I read a chapter or two close the book for the evening, maybe give it some consideration as I get ready for bed and then that is pretty much it.

The Christian life for me has been more than rocky over the past five or so years.
I remember when every Christian book I picked up was not simply a book to read but every one was a bible study no matter if the book was written for the purpose of a bible study or not.

Now when I read a Christian book, it’s just a Christian book that I may well learn something from but likely have not grown from reading.

So that is where this new category comes in.
I have two large book cases filled with 90% Christian material of that I have read in whole about 95% of the books and in part 100%.

However, I studied maybe 45% of it.

My thought then is that I will take no less than one book per month and study that book and it’s particular topics I will then post here either each day I read or at the end of each chapter.

The frequency of posting may depend upon the book itself.

I don’t yet know which book from those shelves I’ll begin with but I will know by tomorrow and will begin the reading and studying by tomorrow.
The posting may not begin for a day or two.

I know this blog doesn’t have any where near the readership of my previous blog (1,000+ per day for the old blog, about 50+ per day for this blog) but the comments will be open on all postings and any thoughts as always will be welcomed and new threads can also be started for complete discussions.

With this category then I hope it to help me keep in mind that I need to be more diligent with my Bible reading/studies and reading/studies of Christian material.

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