A Note on Taking Notes

I want to strongly encourage anyone who regularly reads the Bible (which I also strongly encourage you to do) to keep a notebook and pen or pencil handy as they read. You may not write down anything incredibly profound, or anything that nobody has ever thought of before. But something changes when you read with the intention of writing things down. You pay closer attention to what you are reading. All of us, at one time or another, have been reading and then had to go back and reread it because we were looking at the words without really paying attention. One way that I have been helped to do this less often is to read while intending to write.

You can write down all kinds of things - verses that seem important, observations that you make, questions that come to mind, and things that you learn that you should do. Let's not just read the Bible. Let's read the Bible thoughtfully. Taking notes as you read can help that to happen.