Genesis 1-2
Good morning, RTB’ers!
Carol and I are off on an all-day trip today, so I won’t have my computer with me and I won’t be posting. But the chapters that we are reading today are familiar to all of us, so I hope that a few of you will be posting as to what strikes you. It’s good material!
Blessings!
I loved question 2 today! I had never realized that when Genesis describes God creating with just a “word” that it was alluding to Jesus’s presence with him. I knew Jesus was there from the beginning, but I had never thought of it in this way before.
In the absence of commentary from Fred today, let me point us back to the start of our journey through the whole Bible last year, starting on January 1. These early chapters of Genesis may seem quite familiar to many of us, and that is a good thing, but that familiarity also presents a challenge. We need to guard against the temptation to just breeze through passages that we think we know. Instead, spend some extra time with these chapters and ponder His work of Creation, that He brought the entire universe into being out of nothing at a Word — and that He spoke you into being, too.
On another note, before we get too deep into Genesis, I would encourage us all to take some time to review what we’ve covered thus far this year in Luke. When we’re reading just a few paragraphs at a time, it can be easy to lose track of the overall narrative. So go back and revisit the whole sweep of Luke’s Gospel so far. Look back through the STS questions and your answers and notes. Ponder: Just Who is this Jesus?