Jan week 1 Reflections

Placeholder for my weekly thoughts in this 2016 Bible Reading Journey

Week 1 Reflection questions

OT Narratives

• Why does God make even animals accountable?
• Why is Noah so angry at Ham seeing the nakedness of his father?
• Why is solomon almost so desperate in people to seek wisdom?
• What if our language was only one?
• Sermon on the mount – description of contrasts! Poor in material rich in eternal. Meek in heart, they will be made great!
• Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness!
• Sin reaching its full measure??? What does this mean ?
• Abraham pleading to God is like a boy pleading to his dad!
• Is there significance to why Lot and his daughters slept with him? Other than procreation?
• ³⁶ So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. ³⁷ The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab[j]; he is the father of the Moabites of today. ³⁸ The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi[k]; he is the father of the Ammonites[l] of today.

NT REFLECTION

⁷ “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. ⁸ For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
OUCH!! Proverbs resonate with disastrous consequences for NOT heeding the Lord!

Proverbs 1:24-28

24 But since you refuse to listen when I call and no one pays attention when I stretch out my hand, ²⁵ since you disregard all my advice and do not accept my rebuke,
²⁶ I in turn will laugh when disaster strikes you; I will mock when calamity overtakes you
²⁷ when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.

²⁸ “Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me,

Oaths

³³ “Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill to the Lord the vows you have made.’ ³⁴ But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; ³⁵ or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King.³⁶ And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. ³⁷ All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.[c]

Ask, Seek, Knock

⁷ “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. ⁸ For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.