Today's Reading
We read about a reunion in Genesis today. I was blinking back tears as I read it. What do you think about this part of the story? What must have been going on in the hearts of Jacob and Esau? What happened after Esau left?
The very next part of the story turns dark in many ways. How does it affect you? What do you think of what Jacob's sons did?
Your footnotes say that "Israel" means "God fights." I think another meaning is "one who strives with God." Either way, Jacob gives us another name for God: God, the God of Israel. God reveals Himself to us through His names. I encourage you to write them down and think about them.
Matthew is literally stuffed with important truth today. Jesus once again mentions Sodom. What do you think He meant with His comparison?
How does it strike you today in Psalms, when David says...
"2 The Lord looks down from heaven
on the entire human race;
he looks to see if anyone is truly wise,
if anyone seeks God.
3 But no, all have turned away;
all have become corrupt.
No one does good,
not a single one!" (Psalm 14:2-3 NLT)
Just how important and powerful is wisdom? Read a beautiful word picture in Proverbs today.
I pray that you each grow and find personal enrichment in today's reading. Questions? Comments?
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In Matthew Jesus says that it will be more bearable for Sodom (Tyre and Sidon as well) on the day of judgement because these were Galilean cities and not Jewish cities. I think of this like the story of many talents - to those who much has been given, much is required. Jewish cities had the history of seeing God's awesome power, reading His law and then having Jesus' human presence among them (for the most part) as He was on earth. The Galilean cities did not have this "history".
ReplyDeleteI do have a question about the next section in Matthew. Am I considered part of "those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him" to? Jesus is saying that no one knows the Son except the Father (I understand this), and that no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him. Matthew 11:27