Day Six
Welcome to another week of studying with friends. I'm looking forward to reading about the things you discover this week - even if it is just the book you are trying to use! And I'm looking forward to another week of my own discovery. It's very cool how God's Word never gets boring.
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Today's reading was 2Chron 17-20, all about King Jehosaphat. Good king in general, but made a few big missteps.
My meditating thought today is 17:5a - His heart took delight n the ways of the Lord.
The other note is he set up a traveling Bible class (17:7-9). He had priests and Levites going around Judah teaching the the people from the Law. This, unfortunately, did get the people to turn their hearts to God (20:33).
Ok girls. I guess I am going to have to try to make a trip over to the Christian book store--hoping they have my book. I have NO idea where mine went-I am assuming Titus "put it away" for me in the garbage. If they don't I might just redo a book I already have. I will let you know at the end of the day.
scratch that!! Yay!! I found my book! One last ditch effort that included lifting furniture--somehow it got underneath one of our chairs in the living room. I will start getting caught up...
Good news, Sarah. We are all rejoicing with you.
Yay for Sarah! Things are looking up!
I got behind last week, but I'm caught up again...up through Exodus 19 and Matt. 21:27 and I AM GOING TO WORK ON ROMANS TODAY!!!!
I think the Israelites in Exodus deserved a much larger smackdown than the Lord actually gave them at times. They were such huge whiners and complainers, he was EXTREMELY long-suffering with them, don't you think? Hmmmm, it reminds me of how patient He is with me...I do a fair amount of that myself!
Wow--so (ashamedly) I don't remember ever studying the story of Gideon before last night--and guess what my lesson today was based on!! Gideon! Crazy!
So-a few of the main points:
God is not interested in our excuses and God is not looking for only those who are confident they are up to the job. He knows our strength and entrusts us to use it. God will not always give us all of the answers up front-there is no trust involved in that. Instead I may be in a situation where I need to draw on the resources I have (the Bible, people around me who know the Bible and are willing to give sound advice, and praying to God). This lesson also focused on the fact that, like Gideon, when we obey God there will be people ridiculing, threatening, and telling us we did the wrong thing. I wish I had studied this as a teenager--I think this is a really good example of someone having doubts about what others will think(as we sometimes do--not that it's necessarily right) but pushing through those doubts and obeying.
And my MV: still on Isaiah 55:8-9
For my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are my ways your ways. As high as the heavens are above the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts
Great points, Sarah.
Yea for Ann who is caught up again!
Today I read Mark 13-15. Something that surprised me was that it was not all the apostles who asked Jesus about the destruction of Jerusalem but only Peter, James, John, and Andrew - listed in that order.
I am always amazed at how the Bible writers describe Jesus' crucifixion: no real embellishment, just a statement. And they crucified Him. It all sounds so simple and easy but we know it was anything but that.
Okay, so the one verse that really struck me today in my book was Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope."
I've also decided to take Roger's suggestion and read a chapter of Proverbs a day. So today I read Proverbs 1.
Hello,
Can I start a week late? I have been looking for a study guide and found one I am excited to use- a study of the Gospel of Matthew, written by Theophylact sometime between 1090 and 1108.
He answered a question I had wondered about: why did Matthew give the genealogy of Joseph and not Mary?
The answer, which some of you probably know, but I did not, is that "it was not lawful to reckon ancestry through the mother...And yet, by giving the genealogy of Joseph, Matthew gave her genealogy as well. For it was the law that a woman was not to be taken as wife by a man who was of a different tribe and who was not of her father's lineage...So the evangelist both kept the law which forbade reckoning of ancestry through the mother, and at the same time provided the genealogy of Mary by giving the genealogy of Joseph."
Maybe a small point, but I think it illustrates how fine a line the apostles had to keep in their accounts of the life of Jesus.
Elaine
Good to have you with us, Elaine. Another person is always welcomed.
Julie
I am going to commit to Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and add other days if my schedule allows.
Can my co-worker Emily join the study?
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