How many of us really read the scriptures? Do we really see some of the things that are talked about, read some of the stories that are told?
We had a drama portraying the story of Esther last sun nite at the church we attend. It was very interesting to see it portrayed in first person and then to reread the book and ponder it.
I started posting the scriptures here as a way of encouraging people and I have learned some very interesting things while doing it the past couple years. I know sometimes something may seem boring to some of you and yet others will find the same thing very interesting. this past week while I was putting in the books of Genesis, I saw some things that I found quite interesting. Did you ever realise that before the flood people lived for long hundreds of years and that after it, about 120 yrs was the top age? We tend to think of fathers of young children as men between the age of 20-45. here it seemed that the youngest father was about 65. Noah was 500 yrs old before he was a father and he built the ark after that yet. Some of these men would have lived long enough to see 10 or more generations of their grandchildren. Can you imagine the family gatherings? But can you also imagine the heartaches that some of them would have lived thru in the course of that time? We think the heartaches and joys of 80 yrs to be overwhelming sometimes. Can you imagine the life of 800 yrs?
Often times we tend to place the Bible in the background history and relegate those people told about there as somehow different than us, something that is unrelatable to in our life time here and now. But I wonder, really, were they any different than we are? Were they not prone to the same kinds of temptations, emotions, sins, sorrows and joys as we are? What will our stories be yrs from now and will our decendants look back the same way and say,"They had it so much easier than we do. They did not have so much to distract them. They could live a christian life without being disturbed." Aren't those the things we say about our ancestors? But have we really thought about what they really survived, felt, experienced, and lived?
I wonder if we would look at the Bible as more relevant to our lives today, if it wouldn't change how we look at life, God and others? Somehow it seems to me that the Old Testament is not really a book of history like it is often supposed to be relegated to be. But it is a book of stories of real people, with real lives, living in a real world, that we can really relate to if we choose to.
That is definitly some food for thought. When I was doing some real searchinng starting a little over a year ago. I listened to the Bible while driving. The New Testament twice. I am on my 3rd round at it. Every time one gets something that one did not see or hear before. God not only can forgive us for our sins but He can deliver us from some habits and sins that have enslaved us. Study and research and listen is very important.
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I know what you mean. Some of the righteous people in the OT had grandparents who had actually talked to Adam who had walked and talked with God. No wonder they were righteous. I thought it was interesting that it hadn't rained on the earth until the flood. Wonder if Noah knew what it meant? He was obedient though whether he knew why or not. calleodutPTL
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