Day 24 4/15

I picked up where I left off in Ch. 15 and continued learning about the importance of spending time looking at structure in Scripture. Last time I looked at grammatical structure. The book goes on to discuss literary structure. I spent most of the time looking at Scripture passages of examples in different forms of literary structure like biographical, geographical, and historical. The author sums the importance of structure in Scripture by saying it is the "doorway  to understanding an author's purpose."

I'm looking forward to going through the 10 exercises in this chapter. I will park here for a while as it will take me several days. I am going to look at purpose statements in various passages from books in the Bible and see how the writer accomplishes his purpose in the way he presents his material. 

My prayers during this time are going to be focused on my friend who is a new mommy and is going through all those emotions and struggles of the first few weeks.