November 16, 2009
As I begin my journey of keeping a journal while reading through the Bible, I'm a little apprehensive. I'm not quite sure what it is I'm supposed to be doing, but after sensing a clear direction from God that now is the time, I am here ready and available. Holy Spirit, please guide and direct my thoughts and writings. Show me what it is you want me to do.
Genesis 1:1 - In the beginning GOD! Knowing where you come from gives light and direction to where you are going.
Genesis 3:6 - Eve "saw" the fruit was good to eat. I wonder how Eve "saw" it was good to eat? Eve saw with her eyes ... then she wanted to have it.
Genesis 3:5 - Satan's temptation appealed to her pride.
The result of Adam and Eve's choice:
Genesis 3:8 - You can't hide from God.
Genesis 3:12;13 - Blame others, rationalize your behavior.
Genesis 3:17 - Have to work the ground. What we think we are in control of, or what we think will bring us control and freedom, actually imprisons us and makes us slaves.
Genesis 3:23 - Work the ground from which he was taken.
Acts 14:15 - "He is the One"
Questions from God:
Genesis 3:8 - Where are you?
Genesis 3:11 - Who told you...?
Genesis 3:11 - Did you eat...?
Genesis 3:13 - How could you...?
Addendum: To read what I wrote the first day and to compare that with how I wrote later in this process, it is quite humbling. You can tell I am just very timid and really not quite sure of what I was supposed to do. There is SO much in the first three chapters of Genesis that I didn't comment on or write about. It is tempting to change what I originally wrote, but that isn't what transcribing my journals is supposed to be about. So, I will transcribe it like I wrote it and we will watch the process of how God grows me throughout it. If there is something new I want to add I will add it as an Addendum to my original writings.
It all comes down this: We each have a choice. We are either going to obey God, submit to His authority and follow His teachings as Master of our lives—or—we will refuse to submit to His authority, defy His teachings, and instead choose (in an act of futility) to be the master and god of our own lives. Pride (what is at the root of most if not all sin) is what got in Eve's way and pride is what gets in our way.
Next Entry: Genesis 4:1 – 5:24
As I begin my journey of keeping a journal while reading through the Bible, I'm a little apprehensive. I'm not quite sure what it is I'm supposed to be doing, but after sensing a clear direction from God that now is the time, I am here ready and available. Holy Spirit, please guide and direct my thoughts and writings. Show me what it is you want me to do.
Genesis 1:1 - In the beginning GOD! Knowing where you come from gives light and direction to where you are going.
Genesis 3:6 - Eve "saw" the fruit was good to eat. I wonder how Eve "saw" it was good to eat? Eve saw with her eyes ... then she wanted to have it.
Genesis 3:5 - Satan's temptation appealed to her pride.
The result of Adam and Eve's choice:
Genesis 3:8 - You can't hide from God.
Genesis 3:12;13 - Blame others, rationalize your behavior.
Genesis 3:17 - Have to work the ground. What we think we are in control of, or what we think will bring us control and freedom, actually imprisons us and makes us slaves.
Genesis 3:23 - Work the ground from which he was taken.
"...to remove choice is to remove love..." From In the Eye of the Storm by Max LucadoNehemiah 9:6 - "You are the only LORD"
Acts 14:15 - "He is the One"
Questions from God:
Genesis 3:8 - Where are you?
Genesis 3:11 - Who told you...?
Genesis 3:11 - Did you eat...?
Genesis 3:13 - How could you...?
Addendum: To read what I wrote the first day and to compare that with how I wrote later in this process, it is quite humbling. You can tell I am just very timid and really not quite sure of what I was supposed to do. There is SO much in the first three chapters of Genesis that I didn't comment on or write about. It is tempting to change what I originally wrote, but that isn't what transcribing my journals is supposed to be about. So, I will transcribe it like I wrote it and we will watch the process of how God grows me throughout it. If there is something new I want to add I will add it as an Addendum to my original writings.
It all comes down this: We each have a choice. We are either going to obey God, submit to His authority and follow His teachings as Master of our lives—or—we will refuse to submit to His authority, defy His teachings, and instead choose (in an act of futility) to be the master and god of our own lives. Pride (what is at the root of most if not all sin) is what got in Eve's way and pride is what gets in our way.
Next Entry: Genesis 4:1 – 5:24
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