Today, I started reading my Bible again. I know it sounds so unholy of me. I have put aside the habit, and I could give lots of reasons why, but it boils down to laziness. I've been too lazy to discipline myself. It is like eating healthy and exercising. I know it is good for me , and I love to results when I have practiced the discipline. So I've turned my focus back to both my spiritual and physical health. I started in the beginning. I read Genesis 1-2 and Luke 1 today.
In Genesis, I noticed that God spoke to the earth and the earth did as He commanded. How cool is that to have so much power and use it to create a whole universe. However, in Genesis 2:8 it states that God planted a garden for the man and woman he would create, or did create. I'm still unclear as to the order on that one. Anyway it just reaffirmed to me that God is interested in the details of life. He created a whole world. He made something from nothing. Then, for man, He puts His hand into His own creation and makes something beautiful for His creation, man (whom He breathed into to bring physical life). Then I turned to Luke and read about Mary's story. I noticed a small correlation. God seemingly does the same thing with Mary. He takes His creation (Mary) and creates something(Jesus) for His creation (us). Only this time He breathes spiritual life into this creation. His Holy Spirit. Luke 1:35 The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the baby to be born will be holy, and he will be called the Son of God."
As I thought about this I realized that God is in the business of fixing things up. He takes what seems like nothing and makes something amazing of it. God has taken my life (a once barren desolated desert) and has created a beautiful garden full of life and promise. I saw nothing of meaning or use and yet with a word from God, it has been transformed every painful and shameful detail of my life and created something extraordinary. He has breathed His spirit into my life and I am not longer the same. I so feared there would be no life to come from me and then God happened to me. Talk about an extreme makeover.
4 comments:
I am encouraged by your willingness to admit your laziness. I find myself in that lazy category also. Can I ask you to take a trip with me? I would like to do the "bible in a year thing" and I would like to do it with you and anyone else that reads this. I would like to blog about what I experience and what I learned from the readings at least 2x a week. What do you say sister, are you down?
I am always up for a challenge. It will be nice to have some company on this journey. Count me in.
Where do we start? I would assume that there is some method to this madness that we are embarking on. I just started reading Gen 1:1 and Matthew 1:1. Am I on the right track?
I googled a bible in a year and got
http://www.oneyearbibleonline.com/
On the lsft I clicked on January and I am going from there. I am a few days behind, but what else is new. Let me know what you think.
That works for me. I'm just going to do it. If I miss a day I won't stress it. If I focus on keeping up, I'll quit tomorrow, but I just keep reading I will accomplish my goal. And my goal is to read the Bible, not to keep up. I will forget this so remind me if you need to.
I'll do the reading for January first. My goal is to post three times a week, so if you want to check out my posts feel free t make any comments. If you post on your blog I'll check yours out and comment. What do you think about that?
I am encouraged by your willingness to admit your laziness. I find myself in that lazy category also. Can I ask you to take a trip with me? I would like to do the "bible in a year thing" and I would like to do it with you and anyone else that reads this. I would like to blog about what I experience and what I learned from the readings at least 2x a week. What do you say sister, are you down?
I am always up for a challenge. It will be nice to have some company on this journey. Count me in.
Where do we start? I would assume that there is some method to this madness that we are embarking on. I just started reading Gen 1:1 and Matthew 1:1. Am I on the right track?
I googled a bible in a year and got
http://www.oneyearbibleonline.com/
On the lsft I clicked on January and I am going from there. I am a few days behind, but what else is new. Let me know what you think.
That works for me. I'm just going to do it. If I miss a day I won't stress it. If I focus on keeping up, I'll quit tomorrow, but I just keep reading I will accomplish my goal. And my goal is to read the Bible, not to keep up. I will forget this so remind me if you need to.
I'll do the reading for January first. My goal is to post three times a week, so if you want to check out my posts feel free t make any comments. If you post on your blog I'll check yours out and comment. What do you think about that?
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