I finished today’s reading with a prayer asking God to unleash the fullness of His wondrous life in me and in you. No wonder Jesus says that He’s come to give us life and give it abundantly. Something about today’s reading reignited the truth that God is the source of life.
Atop a mountain, God preserves Isaac’s life in the last moments with the provision of a ram ( Genesis 22). And when Lot finds himself living in a wicked city, God sends messengers to save his life ( Genesis 19). When Sarai finds herself barren, God again reveals Himself as the source of life ( Genesis 11). And though God shortens the life span ( Genesis 6), He remains the source of life.Įven when people mark the earth with “evil, evil, evil” ( Genesis 6), God once again rescues life with in a wooden frame and righteous, though imperfect man, named Noah. The wonder of life is expressed in length of years ( Genesis 5). Together they take care of life-animals and plants. But even after the fall, Eve produces life declaring, “I’ve gotten a man, with God’s help!” with the birth of Cain ( Genesis 4). The first stories in Genesis remind us that even when we question, disobey, or doubt divine love, God continues pursuing us.”īut as I read today I was taken back with the life bubbling up in the book of Genesis. God is the source of life, strength, and goodness.
God is all-powerful, all-knowing, abounding in imagination, creativity, mystery, and wisdom. “The opening chapters of Genesis are chock-full of stories that showcase the attributes of God. I write about this extensively in the 6-week DVD Bible study Pursuing God’s Love: Stories from the Book of Genesis. I’ve always seen the story of creation as the story of our origins, our beginning. The biggest thing that came out of today’s initial reading was the wonder of LIFE. I quickly jotted a question mark and will come back to it later. But for whatever reason, when I read “God Yireh” or “God-Sees-to-It” as the place Abraham named the mountain where he was willing to offer Isaac (Genesis 22) the idea of examining the order of God’s names came to mind. I’ve thought about God’s names, but never the order they come in Scripture.
What are standing out to me are particular words, phrases, ideas, and patterns that I’ve missed reading at a slower pace.I find comfort in knowing that when I fall behind on reading, I have the one day a week to catch up and I can also turn to an audiobible and listen to God’s work while running errands, cleaning around the house, or taking a long walk.I love the way Eugene Peterson captures God speaking creation into existence in Genesis saying God spoke, “Light!” “Sky!” “Separate” “Green up!” “Swarm, Ocean!” as a master artist and craftsman. I found reading The Message Bible refreshing and easy to read.And I opened my Message Bible to read the first 27 chapters of Genesis. You can’t see the individual trees or streams below, but when you’re at that altitude you get to see things you can’t see any other way: cloud formations and lightening storms from above, shifts in the earth’s texture, colors above and below, and much more. He said you’d miss out on the intricacies and details of the Bible reading that much, that fast, and suggested even a 90-day reading plan seemed too much.īut I think of reading or listening to the Bible in 40-days is like flying at 40,000 feet. One person wrote to suggest that such a reading plan wasn’t reasonable.
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