Today, we begin a year long look at God’s
Word! It’s exciting and challenging to
think about the study of God’s Word! I
love both excitement and a challenge, so let the fun begin!
Genesis 1, 2, 3, and Matthew 1
Each day I will post the scripture we are
looking at give a few thoughts of mine and present a few questions and perhaps
another scripture that will allow us to ponder the thought even more than the
scripture for that day.
Genesis 1, 2, and 3
First and foremost, God! God the Creator is the focus of chapter
1. Do you know that the majestic name of
God is used 32 times as an active verb in most cases? I love this fact, right from the beginning we
learn that we serve “a living active God”!
In Chapter 1: 1-3 God is forming and in verses 4 -6 He fills
things. God lays the foundation of
exactly who He is in the very first chapter of His Word.
We learn that He creates, He speaks, He sees,
He separates things, He makes, He trusts, He blesses, and He loves each of us
so very much. How do I know from the
first chapter look at verse 27? Who did
He design to be made in His own image?
Yes, male and female! Us!
Another thought from chapter 1 is that God
started something, He developed something and He will see it through. God knows the whole picture. He is telling us how He started the whole
thing with the words – In the Beginning…a lot of people get sidetracked with
the time element – don’t please. Focus
on God not whether the days were a day like ours or years. What does it matter? After all, God is capable of doing it in a
day or a day representing a thousand years.
Check out 2 Peter 3:8.
Genesis 2
So much good stuff! Be reminded that even God rested. (Verse 2)
If God needed to rest, then we definitely need to rest! It is a new year, so start a new tradition of
setting aside a time of rest.
Everything was perfect at this point. The world was perfection designed by
God. Everything in it was perfect. Imagine, Eve the first woman before sin
entered the picture. So, she had the perfect
eyes, the perfect figure, the perfect hair, everything was perfect! Adam the same! Also, I read about a Jewish thought on the
fact that God made woman from the rib of man, not the foot to be dominant over
or stomping on, but to live your life side by side. Sounds logical, doesn’t it? So leaving chapter 2 remember perfection was
surrounding Adam and Eve before we get to chapter 3.
Genesis 3
The fall of man! How?
Doubt entered the world from the lips of a serpent! He still places doubt around each of us daily
to cause us to sin! WE are no different
than Adam and Eve we allow a twisted word to place that small seed of doubt and
immediately the trust goes out the window!
Look at verse 1 and chapter 3 and sin enters the world and perfection is
gone – out the window!
Sin brings consequences. Verse 8 and 9…Adam and Eve suddenly realized
they had messed up and they hid. Does
this sound familiar? Does to me! I hate to admit it, but I want to hide when
sin rears its ugly head in my life, but instead of running and hiding we must
run to God not away from! Don’t run and
hide! Flee to Him for help after all
look at verse 21 God makes garments of clothing for Adam and Eve. Imagine, the Creator of the Universe made
their outfits even after their failure.
Matthew 1
Matthew is a good Jewish man and He is going
to make sure that the records of Jesus go back to Abraham and David. He is going to fill in all the gaps and leave
no room for questions that Jesus is the answer to the prophecies. Jesus is the Messiah! In the people listed in Jesus line look at
the five women. Five women! Four of
these women had sins connected to sexual sins and yet they are listed in the
lineage of Christ! Talk about showing
how Jesus shows forgiveness even through his birth history!
Joseph.
Joseph. What an important man in
this story of Jesus is this man named Joseph.
Why? Because He believed. Joseph teaches us to believe. An important key to faith taught to us is
verses 22 and 23! WE must believe these
verses to show our faith. Do you agree?
I will ask you two questions at the end of
each day to respond to in your comments ~
1) What’s
the most fascinating part of our reading today?
2) What new thought did God give you today?
You read some of mine above. I want to close by asking you to read Psalm
104. The writer of Psalm 104 knew
exactly who God was and is…Do we? Praise
God today remembering He set the earth on its foundation and it can never be
moved. Verse 24 –
How many are your works, O LORD! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is
full of your creatures…
Indeed, I sit in Colorado surrounded by the
mountains and the animals of your creation and once again I am reminded of just
how MIGHTY YOU ARE GOD! I give praise to
You and You alone! I praise you LORD
with all my might and I thank you Lord for the Gift of your Word!
Praising God,
Debbie
2 comments:
What a great way to start the New Year - in God's Word!
To answer your first question of what was the most fascinating part of the reading today, I would have to say the story of creation is fascinating in itself. The God who created us and loves us created EVERYTHING, THE WHOLE UNIVERSE!
Secondly, there are a couple of new thoughts for me. In Genesis 2:15-17, Eve had not been created yet when God gave Adam the instructions not to eat from the tree of knowledge it seems. We read later in Genesis 2: 21-23 about God creaating her from Adam's rib. Not to let her off the hook for believing the serpent, but in Genesis 3:6, it says that Adam was with her. I was wondering why he didn't speak up or maybe he did? We just don't know all of the details.
There is a song on "The Story" CD that is called, "If I Could" and it is about Adam and Eve. I have been struck with how sad they must have been to leave their fellowship with God. They walked with Him in the Garden. How heartbroken they must have been! The words to that song say, "if I could change what I did I would." Haven't we all felt that at one time or another?
Happy New Year! Looking forwaard to what the other readers have to share.
Have to make a correction. The name of the song on "The Story" CD is "Good" not "If I Could." If I could, is part of the lyrics.
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