Like most of us, I have tended to live for the next. The next season. The next accomplishment. The next stage. I am learning, slowly, to accept the now. I don’t like the now, to be honest. I don’t like its messy. I don’t like all the flaws I see in it (and in...
Tag: God
Anxiety and Responsibility
Last week, I wrote about control and responsibility. Obviously, I do have some responsibility toward other people. I really can’t just throw up my hands and leave everyone to their own devices. That’s no more helpful than trying to control everyone. Flip sides of the coin, you know? But I realized that my sense...
Noah
Genesis 6:9 – Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. When God inspired Moses to write down Noah’s story, the description was threefold. Noah was … righteous. The name means just. He was lawful. He followed God’s rules. He offered sacrifices as God...
When We Don’t Understand
Engaging Genesis, engaging the Bible as a whole, is important. We’re familiar with many of the stories and characters, sure. But what about when we don’t understand? There’s an awful lot in Genesis (and the Bible as a whole) that can seem confusing. We bog down, uncertain of what God means or how a...
Stories
This is a Write 31 Days post. Genesis is a book of stories. Its focus is beginnings. Its events introduce and orient us to the other books of Moses and to the rest of the Bible. But if we miss, somehow, that Genesis is primarily a story book, we will misunderstand and misinterpret a...