Well today is Day 9 of my journey, but this is my first blog post. So I’ll have to play a bit of catch up here. For reference, through today I have covered Genesis 1-19 and Job 1-8, with a bit of supplemental reading from Psalms and Proverbs.

What do we learn from these first 19 chapters of Genesis? Well…quite a lot in fact.

First of all, this will probably reveal exactly what a novice I am at this Bible stuff, but I really never realized that from Creation through Jesus Christ, the story of Salvation History (a term possibly coined by Jeff Cavins, or at least he’s the first person I heard it from) is really that of God’s repeated attempts to form covenants with his greatest creation: Mankind. This early God strikes me as quite a bit more…fearsome(?)… than we’re used to once we understand Jesus as God. But at the same time, what’s equally as apparent if not more so, is that God loves his Creation, and wants to have a loving relationship with humanity. But thanks to our original Father and Mother, Adam and Eve, we lost that opportunity for ever and ever…

Or did we? And that’s my second point is that God never gave up on us. Did he call down the rains to wipe out all of humanity? Sure, but he also saved Noah and his family so that humanity could have another chance. And despite the many failures of Noah, and later Abraham, God still promised us salvation.

He also told Abraham “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.” (Gen. 17:1) So we certainly have to do our part too.

I’m fighting the urge to “read ahead” because there is part of me that wants to make this journey last the entire year. But then there’s this other part of me that yearns to keep reading God’s Word. I will have to continue praying in order to determine how best to proceed.

That’s all for now.

In Christ,

Sam