The Realms of the Real

Genesis 12:1-20


Abram took huge risk when he listened to God here. I wonder what Sarai thought about just picking up and leaving.  It's not like she had a way to call up her mom to say 'hello.'  Their picking up and leaving was starting fresh with no connection to their hometown like we have these days.

Sarai must have been smokin' hot as well. The Egyptians wanted her, and Abram was an idiot by letting them [almost] having her.  Once again, I wonder what Sarai thought. The culture was very different back then, but I'm sure Sarai was still peeved at her husband.

Genesis 11:1-9


I want to share something I read in my Live Application Study Bible that I enjoyed.

• "The tower of Babel was a great human achievement, a wonder of the world.  But it was a monument to the people themselves rather than to God.  We may build monuments to ourselves (expensive clothes, big house, fancy car, important job) to call attention to our achievements.  These may not be wrong in themselves, but when we use them to give us identity and self-worth, they take God's place in our lives.  We are free to develop in many areas, but we are not free to think we have replaced God.  What 'towers' have you built in your life?"

Genesis 8, Genesis 9:1-17


I've read about the flood many times throughout my life. Growing up, this is one of the events in the Bible that we discussed over and over because people think it's a good story for kids.  We tend to focus on the boat and all the animals as opposed to horror of all humanity being destroyed.

The flood is definitely not kid-friendly.  In fact, I would say it is probably the worst event that has ever happened in history.  Think about it, the whole earth was destroyed.  Everyone drowned.  That doesn't sound like a pleasant story to share with little kids, does it.  Yet we decorate our nurseries and kids attire with the ark and animals.  Maybe we should just stick with shapes and colors.

Genesis 6:5-22, Genesis 7

Just a few thoughts about this passage...

• Noah was an old dude.
• I am thankful for Noah.  We wouldn't exist without him.
• I wonder what a guitar made out of gopher wood would sound like.
• More than two of some animals were on the ark. A lot of kids stories overlook this.
• People wonder about fish.  Check out Genesis 7:23.  They aren't mentions, so my guess is that they just swim.
• Noah probably got a lot of flack for building the ark.  I think the movie Evan Almighty portrayed this pretty well.

Genesis 3
While doing the E100, I am also following a plan that will take me through the Old Testament once and the New Testament twice in a year.  This has me reading through the book of Leviticus, which is just filled with law after law of how God wants His people to live.  There is no way we could follow all of these laws their entire life.  That's why we need Jesus.

Adam and Eve lived in a time when there weren't hundreds of laws to follow.  They only had one and still messed it up.  The crazier thing is that they did not even have the knowledge of good and evil at this time and decided to follow their own desire as opposed to God's.  Like I said before, it just goes to show why we need Jesus.