I’m down and out today with a whopper of a cold. But I did read….and now for a very short blog via my phone: Job’s friends were full of hot air and platitudes….no substance. May my own words to my friends be real…not like those. Sometimes the best thing to do is listen. Continue reading Job 10-13 Fluffy Advice
While picking at the sores that oozed on his body, Job came up with some tough questions for God and wonders what he has done that has caused all this punishment to fall on him. What strikes me the most about these passages is Job’s honesty before God. He asks intimate questions of him, as if God were standing right there next to him. I don’t know that I’d have the guts to stand toe to toe with God and ask him: (Job 7) 11-16 “And so I’m not keeping one bit of this quiet, I’m laying it all out … Continue reading Job 6-10: Laying it all out on the table
Well, it’s day 4 of my effort to read and blog my way through the Bible, and so far, I’m still on track, praise God! I’m finding it easier to read the next day’s reading the night before so I have a chance to sleep on what I read. Today’s reading jumped from Genesis chapter 11 to Job. Job’s story is an ancient one that demonstrates the “No Pain/No Gain” principle. Every time I think of Job, I think of my daughter’s experience at last year’s summer camp. She shared with me that she was disappointed because she came in … Continue reading Job 1-5: No Pain/No Gain
Welcome to day 3 of my attempt to read through and analyze the Bible in one year! So far, so good. I’m finding that writing about what I read makes me pay more attention to what is written. Genesis 8-11 is a snapshot of the beginning of Life As We Know It. We know very little about what the earth was like before the flood, but archeologists have found much in ancient sites that correlate to this early history of life on earth as found in Genesis. I never realized before today that Noah’s sons — Ham, Shem, and Japheth … Continue reading Gen 8-11: The Beginning of Nations
In past readings of Genesis 4-7, I usually read all about Cain killing Abel, then skimmed over the “begats” in chapter 5 and zoomed right into the meat of the story, when God saw the wickedness of the world and decided to wipe out all that had breath…except for Noah and his family. But today my brain got stuck on chapter 5. Did Adam really live 930 years? Was he really 130 years old when he had Seth? In those early days of humanity, is it possible that God allowed the earth’s atmosphere and environment to nurture and enrich people … Continue reading Gen 4-7: Walking with God
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