Hello Truth Seekers? If you want to comment, you have to create a google address. Jacob meets Esau and all is well. However, I since a little nervousness and distrust from Jacob. I imaging if someone threatened to kill me I would be likewise. I guess time does heal some wombs! God can heal them all and time is not a factor. 34 Jacob daughter was violated. Meaning that Shechem forced her to have sex thus dishonoring her. He then wanted to marry her. Hello! Marrying her first would have been proper. This now deems her untouchable as a potential bride. Men looked for women who were virgins. In fact, if found to have lied about such a thing would lead to death. This was costly to Shechem and his family, but it also cost Levi and Simeon the blessing that would come from their father. Jacob denounces their behavior, but the brothers are resolved they did the right thing. They dishonored themselves in honoring their sister. This is cause for Jacob to move onward to Bethel. He remembers his encounter and promise to God. He honors it. How many of us can say that. We make promises to God, and fail to honor them. This is a bitter sweet time for Jacob. Rachel dies giving birth to Benjamin. He gains a son; loses his wife. Many times in my life I have experienced the bitter with the sweet; my pastor reminds me that those times keeps us on our bended knees..
Romans 11; 19-36. Paul is pain staking insistent that all is not lost for his people. He is lays out a case that God will remember his chosen people, and God continues to extend to them the hope and salvation that comes through Christ. Paul is obviously hurting for his people and looks ahead to God's grace and gives up on his own understanding or ability to explain how he will do it. However, he does believe that God who saves will not forget Israel. I'm encourage by this, that my short sightedness does not limit God's grace. Many people let their immorality keep them from morality. But God has sent his son because of our need. Jesus is often referred to the as the son of a carpenter; no his father is a Dirt Smith. Remember God did his best work with what he shaped out of dirt. The Psalmist says, he knows our frame he remembers that we are dust. (103)
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ReplyDeleteI am so enthralled with the way the Genesis "SAGA" unfolds. I was telling other members that it is like the soap operas-full of deceit, lust, and intrigue. I know that someone admitted that they are not reading because they have to watch their soaps and I thought "Oh! Well you're missing the best melodrama of all!"
it has really been knowledgable reading the sciptures daily. i have been rejoiced and telling others but there is one thing that i am concerned about. should'nt others that are receiving this good knowledge bring there gifts to God house as a token of appreciation for recieving the gospel?
ReplyDeleteI am glad you are being blessed. All I can say is that the more I know about God and his grace, the less I with-hold from him. I think that if people read the word, they will honor God in many ways. If we are His then all that we have is His; time, talent and treasure.
ReplyDeleteI am growing in knowledge about the beginning-not only of Christianity-but the beginning of people and communities all together! How we interact and get along (or not so much) it's amazing. As I follow Abraham, Issac, Jacob and Joseph though, I wonder why God chooses whom he chooses to be called blessed? Like why Jacob and not Esau? I know that a Sovereign God owes me no explanation but sometimes the human mind seeks human understanding.
ReplyDeleteI look at the all of the sub plots that are explained in the book of Genesis. Like Dinah and her brothers, Judah and Tamar all of those stories that really look like us (our behaviors) today. That is probably why the nature of mankind doesn't surprise me much. I know that we've needed Jesus since the beginning of time.