This week is a time to reflect on the reading and journaling you have done over the last 25 weeks. Our reading will begin again on July 1, 2024.
This is a 6 day a week Bible study of every chapter in the Bible. My Reflections are there for inspiration but your reflections are what matter. So grab a legal pad or open a Doc file and record your thoughts. I recommend reading a version you're comfortable with, the King James Version is in the blog for your convenience. Updated thoughts can be found at my personal blog https://csareson.blogspot.com/ Amazon has a print version.
This week is a time to reflect on the reading and journaling you have done over the last 25 weeks. Our reading will begin again on July 1, 2024.
Chapter 26 continues looking to Jesus’ future kingdom. In verse
19, there is the promise of a life after death. They had thought their pain
brought forth nothing but God promises the dead will come back that the earth
will give birth to her dead. In many places in the Bible, there is the
promise there is more to life than this life.
Job's words here in chapter 21 could easily
be in Ecclesiastes. There and here Job points out that though the wicked should
be punished in this life it seems as if everything goes well for them. He sees
that life doesn't always follow the rules we want them to.
The
one flaw with Job's argument is that the wicked don't always have it easy. It
does seem that when things go wrong for people who are trying to live right and it
does seem that examples of the wicked suffering are hard to find. Job's pain is
the pain of most people at some time in their life. Job's logic also seems to
be the logic of most. We can feel as it were, his pain and our own.
Or as it has also been called The Acts of the
Holy Spirit through believers. The reason this book has been looked at as the
work of the Holy Spirit (Holy Ghost in some translations) is found in verse 8
of chapter 1. In the verse, Jesus promises that the Holy Spirit is what is
going to empower His followers to be his witnesses. It is through this power
that the apostles and others were able to do what they did.
It is also the power of the Holy Spirit which gives believers today the power to do the most remarkable thing in the world; to be transformed into holy people. The power to work miracles, prophecy, or even speak in tongues is small compared to the power to transform the heart of man. This power to transform, I believe, is the real power to be witnesses that Jesus is talking about.
There are some really good questions that
Moses asked God. Later in the story, Moses goes from asking questions to giving
excuses, but here in chapter three Moses is asking questions that are very
reasonable.
“Who am I?” This question shows a level of
humility that is needed for anyone serving God. God’s answer was He would be
going with him and would thus be not just an equalizer but the overwhelming
power which would bring the deliverance.
“Who are you?” In a society full of gods
this is a reasonable question. A god of the land might have some powers. A god
of the night might have others. All the gods of Egypt had different rites and
requirements, so Moses needed to know what and who he was serving. This is one
of the reasons we have the Bible, it gives us a picture of God like nothing
else.
In the New Testament, Jesus, as God in the Flesh, is the greatest picture we have, because of him we can know the kind of God we serve. We can know his power and his requirements.