January 10, 2008 Reading Schedule

Read Genesis 25-26 and Matthew 8:1-17

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Anonymous said...

OK, I admit it; the girlie part of me loved Genesis 24 yesterday. What a great love story! When I caught myself thinking again what a great TV series the Bible would make, it was almost as if God whispered, "Chris, what do you think Hollywood would do with My Word?" Spice it up, distort it, (sigh) Probably.

I just want to know why my cat so frequently looks at me while I'm having my devotion time...and throws up. Satan's disctraction tactics no doubt.

Matthew 8:5 I was wondering about the centurion whose servent Jesus healed. This guy would not have been a well-liked guy by the Jews, am I right? I recently finished a great book and the pretense was how would the world respond if Christ appeared on the scene for the first time today? The centurion of our day was the leader of a white supremicist hate group.

Whoever he was, the guy just believed. That struck a chord with me. I have been living in unbelief about an issue that is near and dear to my heart. Where is MY faith? I am so caught up in worry and fretting about this issue and have been concentrating on how it affects ME. I suppose this dude could have just sat back and felt sorry for himself and his servent's situation, spent long hours thinking about how upset he was about it. But no, he sought the Lord, and he BELIEVED. This was a good thing for me to read as it caused me to shift my thinking a bit.

Genesis 25:34 Esau sold his birthright for a bowl of lentils. That's crazy, was my first thought. Upon further reflection (during a femoral bypass surgery no less; don't worry, I wasn't participating, just observing) I thought, how often to we sell something precious for a "quick meal" of whatever feels good at the time?

Genesis 26:7 D'oh! Like father, like son. And these two weren't brother and sister. Hadn't Abimelech heard that line before? But regarding what he said...wouldn't someone have had to marry Rebecca in order to lay with her, or was it different back then? I mean, my point is that surely Isaac would have known that someone was gonna steal his "sister" before they actually did, right?

In all the talk of wells, I could only think of how vital water is for our survival...it rejuvinates and refreshes us besides. We need to have access to a well, literally and figuratively, as we need to wash in the water of the Word. (And that does not mean taking a bath with your Bible)

V 34 Abraham and Isaac both had one wife, though I saw mention of concubines. I guess a gal had to be patient with her husband back then. But it says Jacob had 2 wives. Is this when that started being OK or was it already?

Seems like a very un-spiritual topic to end on, but I'm out of time. See ya soon!

January 10, 2008 at 1:32 PM

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