Some books in the Bible are just hard to read, especially in the Old Testament. Here's John Piper's advice for feeding our souls in them.
"The Bible, with all of its many wonderful and strange parts, is designed by God, inspired by God, put together by God, not just for 21st century Western, middle class culture, but for thousands of cultures around the world, spread over thousands of years, with all of those centuries and all of those cultures being dramatically different. What a challenge for God to put together a book that works like that! If you were God, how would you create a book that would be useful in all the cultures and all the centuries of the world?" [John Piper]
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