chapter 20: why in the world is abraham doing that sister thing again?? pharaoh already got on to him for it before, and now he's getting rewarded . . . ? so confused! if jack ever said i was his sister so another man wouldn't kill him to get me, i would be outraged! plus, he would never do that, i don't get it! going to read commentary on it. commentary says that he was wrong to do it and that his rebuke from an earthly heathen king was punishment.
chapter 22: seriously. this guy is so afraid of being killed that he says his wife is his sister, and then he doesn't even hesitate when God says to sacrifice his son. he seems to go up and down in his spiritually walk. it's actually encouraging, it's good to know that even abraham who walked with God and is one of the most well known Christians struggled in his walk. and as far as sacrificing his only child? breaks my heart to think of that, reading this story for the first time as a mom gives it all new meaning! i know that Skyler belongs to God but man, that is so hard to come to terms with!!
just saw that i never published this one, so it's out of order! hehe
Friday, May 25, 2012
right now i'm writing out the Bible and i'm on Genesis chapter 3, i started awhile ago but got distracted when i went down to GA, so i'm doing better now! anyway, as i write chapter 3 it makes me think about how people tend to think that if there was a God then bad things shouldn't happen, but when they are informed that it's b/c of sin, then they think that people shouldn't be punished for what "two stupid people did a LONG time ago" well, when you look at what the serpent said to Eve, 4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” it makes me think about how we all are, we think we know better than God because we don't want to trust HIS will for our lives, or HIS definition of good and evil, every single one of us would have eaten the fruit because every single one of us thinks we know best in all areas of our life. talk about taking up your cross daily, i think that should be secondly . . . every second of every day is a struggle to try to push ourselves down to let Christ live through us, and it's hard! anyway, those were just my thought for chapter 3! :)
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