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I love reading God’s word!!

Genesis is a cool book. It is seriously packed full of coolness!

Creation.  God made us from dirt in His image after He made a bunch of other really cool things!  Then there was the fall…….I can’t judge Adam and Eve to harshly because my heart is stupid wicked and decietful.  I’m just not that cool and I know that I would have sinned if I was the first woman.  People sinned, God still loved them.

Then there was Noah.  I mean seriously have you ever stopped to think about just how big that Ark had to have been?  Simply amazing!!!!  And God was pretty funny afterwards when He confused their languages so that they couldn’t understand each other and made them move on their way.   Can’t you just imagine going up to your brother and to say hi like you did every other day and not being able to udnerstand each other? LOL!  I’m sure it wasn’t funny to them at the time and they totally deserved it for disobeying God, but it sure is kind of funny to me looking back!

Then we move on to Abraham…Abraham is an interesting character.  He found favor in God’s eyes.  I still wonder why sometimes.  What had he done that God would bless him so wonderfully?  I do imagine it was hard to do all that God had required of him.  Perhaps that’s why he failed at times.  He was supposed to leave his country, taking only his family and possesions.  I’m not certain taking Lot, his nephew with him was really what God had in mind, but he did it anyway!

So continuing on with Abraham.  He failed.  A lot.  He lied twice and told others that Sarah was not his wife, but his sister…UGH!  Now, Sarah was both his sister and his wife (which is just wrong!), but thats not the point!  Sarah was beautiful and the men of the foreign lands would love to have taken her as their wife.  What a mess that would have been!

God tested Abraham and Sarah’s faith.  I really love reading about this…God tests my faith from time to time too and ya know what I mess it all up too!  Sarah fails by not trusting that God would give her a child.  She was barren and old.  I mean seriously…my grandma will be 86 this July and since she had her last of ten children 44 years ago, I’m thinking she won’t be having any more any time soon.  Its easy to sit back and say “yeah but God said…”  Yes, but God tells us stuff all the time and we still fail in our faith miserably too, so try not to judge Sarah too harshly!  I just feel bad for the maidservant Hagar.  She didn’t get to choose her husband.  She was just told go get pregnant by Abraham and have a baby for me.  So she did, then Sarah didn’t want the baby and Ishmael, along with his mother Hagar were treated harshly.

FINALLY after what seemed like an eternity, Sarah conceived and gave birth to Isaac, which means laughter.  Sarah named him that because his birth made them all laugh.  Isaac was loved greatly by his parents!

Then God decided to do something very disturbing to me.  He told Abraham to go up Mt.  Moriah (my sweet sweet baby girl’s name) and sacrifice his son.  Uhhh…God?  Did I just hear you right?  Yes you did, Abraham, now go!  Wow! I can’t even begin to tell you the thoughts that are going through my head as I read that!  My son is Elijah and he’s mine and I love God, but do I love Him that much?  I’m not sure that I do…just one more way I suck, I guess.  But Abraham, showed his faith here!  He trusted God!  So he took his son to sacrifice.  Now think with me here again…at this point Isaac is old enough to understand that something isn’t right.  I think I even read somewhere that he was a teenager.  I could be wrong her though, so I’ll just shut up about that…BUT!!!  Can’t you just hear him as his father ties him up and get’s ready to kill him?!!!  Daddy?  Daddy, please, no!?  Please, Daddy?! UGH!  Good thing God provided a different sacrifice, because I’m sure those were some pretty intense moments and I’m sure that Abraham had some pretty hefty dreams rolling down his cheeks!

So Issac grows up and and marries Rebecca, a pretty cool girl full of faith and just a bit deceitful.  She has twins, Esau and Jacob.  Esau is of course the first born and he’s hairy.  Thats pretty funny sounding to me, but anyway.  Issac favors Esau and Rebecca favors Jacob.  Esau is not the smartest tool in the shed and sells his birthright for some food.  Moron.  Later on Jacob, with the help of his mother tricks Issac into thinking that Jacob is Esau and Isaac gives Jacob Esau’s blessing.  The blessing of the firstborn son is something special and well..lets just say Esau isn’t too happy about it all. So Jacob runs away to the land his mother is from.

So Jacob gets to his destination and shortly after meets Rachel. Rachel was beautiful and in the right family!  I still find it amusing that they all had to marry their cousins and whatnot!    Anyway, so Jacob worked for Laban, Rachel’s father, for seven years in order to win Rachel’s hand in marriage.  When he woke the morning after his “wedding” he found he had not married Rachel, but Leah, her older sister!  WoW!  Laban, in my opinion was Jacob’s match for deceit!  Jacob worked for seven more years and married Rachel as well!  Can’t you just imagine that?  Two sisters, one husband.  Yeah, it wasn’t pretty.  Jacob continued to work for Laban and built up his own herds in a rather deceitful way that I don’t feel like getting all into detail with.  Its interesting though….

Leah started having babies, but Rachel had none.  Rachel was jealous, so she gave her maidservant (sounds like Sarah, don’t you think?) to Jacob to have babies for her.  Sounds like fun to Leah, so she gives her maidservant to Jacob as well.  Finally Rachel is able to have two sons herself.    In all, Jacob had 12 sons.  Rachel’s son Joseph was his favorite.

Jacob loved and favored Joseph so much that he gave him an ornamental robe to show his favor.  Joseph had a dream one night that all of his brothers would bow down to him.  When he told his brothers about this, they were ANGRY!  They were so angry that they beat Joseph, sold him to some Canaanites and told his father he must have been killed by a wild animal.

Joseph was then taken to Egypt where he was sold to a man named Potiphar, one of Pharoah’s officials.  God was with Joeseph and he prospered in all that he did.  Potiphar trusted Joeseph and put him charge of his entire house.  I’m thinking this meant that Joeseph did everything Potiphar himself should have been doing. 

Joseph was a good looking guy and Potiphar’s wife noticed.  She wanted to sleep with him and after he’d said no one too many times, she grabbed his cloak.  He got out of it and ran away, but she was ANGRY…so she lied and said he had wanted to sleep with her.  Joeseph was thrown in jail.

While he was in jail he met two other prisoners, a baker and a cupbearer.  Each man had a dream one night and in the morning wanted to know what their dreams meant. Joseph interpreted them and the dreams came true!  The baker was terminated and the cupbearer was put back to his old job.  The cupbearer only remembered Joseph two years later when Pharoah himself had a dream that nobody else could interpret.

Pharoah’s dreams were pretty interesting.  In the first dream, he dreamt that seven skinny cows ate up seven fattened ones. In the second dream seven sunscorched stalks of grain ate up seven tall healthy ones!

Basically his dream meant that there was going to be seven years of bounty follwed by seven years of famine.  God was warning Pharoah that he should stock up!   So Pharoah put Joseph in charge!

A while into the famine, guess who showed up for food!  Yup, his brothers!!  Can’t you just imagine how angry Joseph was?!  He was a man of God though and he forgave them!  After he tested to them to be sure they had changed, he told them who he was and had the entire family move into Egypt where the food was!

So basically Genesis=creation, promises, decietful men, and God’s, not man’s, perfect plan.
I LOVE IT!

Is it really already March?  I know I haven’t done a really great job at updating my blog…I could give excuse after excuse, but that would be entirely way too boring, so I will just skip that part.

The children are growing leaps and bounds and they teach me a lot about love, patience and forgiveness.  They are happy most of the time, although Moriah thinks 5 AM is the time to wake these days and Elijah is having a very time with going to bed as of late.  I think its an overactive imagination.  We are all quite tired as you can imagine.

It being a new month and all, I’ve been thinking.  I’ve been think that I really do need to get my act together.  Here it is March and I had every intention of reading through the Bible this year.  Wanna know how much I’ve read?  Genesis.  Just Genesis.  I enjoyed it so much too!  I sat down one night and read Genesis straight through with only bathroom and snack breaks to interupt me.  I wanted to blog about Genesis.  I didn’t.  Now I think I’ve forgotten all the highlights…maybe not though…maybe a quick overview would be good.  Now that is March and all, I should probably just read it over again.  Then I should move on, right?  You know, to Exodus.  The Bible is so interesting!!  I’ve never read it cover to cover.

Oh yes, I pick up my Bible (or look it up on my computer) every day for some reason or another, but that really isn’t enough!  I want to be able to say I’ve read it cover to cover.  I want to refresh my memory of all those Sunday School lessons I heard as a child and all of the things I studied in college.  I want to KNOW God’s word.  I want a deep and wonderful understanding of God’s word.  I want to think through God’s word in such a way that I never have before.  Guess what?  I’m gonna blog it all.  At least I’m gonna try.  Because God’s word is interesting and since I’ve got a blog I don’t journal nearly as much as I used to.  Writing takes too much time.  My computer is entire way too old deletes files randomly, so I put most everything on the internet anyway.  Bloggyland!!  Here I come!  I hope you don’t get too bored!  If you do, sorry!  I know I won’t be bored.  It is God’s word after all.