Observation
November 9th, 2006 by Ron
“His socks don’t match.” My photographer friend exclaimed to me as we were briskly thumbing through the airline magazine. The auto ad showed a tall basketball player trying to get into a small car and his socks did not match. I did not see it, but my friend saw it immediately. He trained his eye to look for things through the years in his profession.
Observation is a learned and trained skill in Bible study. Usually, the way we train ourselves to observe is to force the right questions. Part of Rudyard Kipling’s poem is a good place to start. “I have six honest serving men, they taught me all I knew, their names were how, when and why, what and where and who.”
Look deliberately at a paragraph of Scripture six times. Ask each of those questions separately for each run through and you will be amazed how much you will see. Perhaps you will see something which had never seen before.
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