Today's Reading
How is your reading coming along? We have made it through the first week of 2010 -- can you believe it? If you miss a day, forgive yourself and pick up with the next day. Really knowing the Bible is a lifetime adventure so lets stay at it, tiny steps at a time.
Genesis today is so rich that we could spend a week just on these chapters. Here are a few highlights...
1. God reveals his character to us through His names. We discover two of them in today's reading.
2. God enters a deeper covenant with Abram and changes his name to Abraham. Then God gives Sarai a new name.
3. God's requirement of Abraham in this covenant is circumcision and Abe responds obediently.
4. Sarai tries to help God along and get a family through her own manipulations. Thousands of years later, the world still reels from the conflict that started there.
Matthew includes more instructions about how to truly follow God. Which one of these means the most to you?
Psalms. David (the man after God's own heart) wonders if his problems are all his own fault. If not, he asks God for justice. Surely you have been there!
Proverbs contains the words of a parent longing for his child to know and follow God's ways. Some of you are praying that for your little ones. God bless you for it!
Questions and comments are welcome. Yours may help someone else on this journey.
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I really enjoyed today's reading: God's faithfulness to Abraham as well as everything in Matthew. I have been thinking a lot lately about the passage regarding giving to the needy. Often I think we Christians get a little puffed up about our perceived good deeds when in reality "all our righteous acts are like filthy rags" Isaiah 64:6. I also have been thinking a lot about storing up treasures. How is this reconciled with the prosperity gospel? God wants me to be rich? I thought God gave resources for us to care for one another, not to store up on Earth. Just a thought.
ReplyDeleteI think you are right on in your perceptions, Lara. Now, here is my "balance lesson" for the day: God often teaches principles in the Word by mentioning (in various places) extremes. For instance, "My God shall supply all....according to His RICHES..." The other extreme might be, "Go, sell all...give to the poor..." God is neither saying that we should all expect to be rich, nor that we should all live in poverty. The danger is when someone takes the verses from one extreme and builds their entire doctrine on them. I think that is what has happened in the "prosperity Gospel."
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