so sorry my post was interrupted last night. my little girl and i will be recovering this morning from her 8-10 throwing-up episodes in the night. as of just a few minutes ago she was very cautiously taking sips of water from a spoon/the poor little thing is so dehydrated. :( i have another amazing story to share of something else that happened in the night...that i hope to share in a fb note later today. :) but for this morning...sorry for distractions of life. lol
--old testament understanding--
my old testament survey text has much to say about abram/abraham's faith and righteousness. when i started this study, i had some idea of how i wanted to write and what kinds of things were important to me to include and to bring to light in the blog, but i knew some of it would kind of be random and Holy Spirit-led and thoughts that were popping out at me too...i won't be touching on every story or every passage or every chapter even...sometimes just giving an overview or sometimes just pointing out one verse. all that said, i cannot move through genesis without spending some time/thought on the passage that records abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son, isaac! this is key as it is a display of abraham's rock-solid faith in God and a display of God's enduring faithfulness to His promise.
isaac was a son born from an aged couple...who had waited for the promise that their descendants would be as numerous as the stars. a promise born. the hope of God's covenant-fulfilled. but when abraham was asked by God to sacrifice isaac, his faith remained and proved enduring. and when they went up the mountain with the wood and the fire...God intervened with the provision of a ram for sacrifice. it helps me to read about a man...imperfect, but with sustaining faith...and God's interactions with him. i know it is possible for me to trust God as abraham did. and i know God is faithful...this is especially important to my understanding of Him in times of testing.
as we have made our way, now more than halfway through this historical account of genesis, we are getting a picture of how our Creator God interacts with His creation. His desire is for us to come into relationship with Him. i love the accounts of enoch and of noah...when it records that they "walked with God." i want to walk with Him...to journey...to move forward...to get from here to there...with the One who knows my heart and mind and soul better than i know myself because He made me. a handful of characters, of course, just stand out to us as examples of faith...noah being one in addition to abraham with whom we see God made a covenant. God is faithful to His covenant of the rainbow in chapter 9...that He will never destroy the whole earth again with flood waters. He is faithful to His covenant with abraham that his descendants would be blessed...we will see how the nation of israel is established through isaac and jacob and his sons. God is faithful....
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