I don't really have anything profound to say. I'm just posting to say that I've been reading the Old Testament lately and it's so good. I don't just mean that it's interesting; I mean that it's so good to be reading it. Normally when I try to read through the OT I'll start at the beginning and really enjoy Genesis and Exodus, but I get bogged down in Leviticus (and/or Numbers) and just quit reading. So this time I just skipped over them and started in Deuteronomy. Then I kept going and have since finished Joshua and Judges and it is really good.
It's just really neat learning more about who God is and what He's done. I'm amazed at how often His people turned away from Him...and He kept giving them another chance. I'm amazed at how much war and killing went on. I'm surprised I've never heard anyone talk about the military power-house Israel was under Joshua's leadership, and how many nations and kings they completely eliminated.
Anyway, just some thoughts. But I have to end with one of my favorite lines in the whole bible that gives me chills/goose bumps everytime I think about it:
Joshua 5:13-15 - "Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, "Are you for us or for our enemies?" "Neither," he replied, "but as comander of the army of the LORD i have now come."
If you want to know why I think that's so cool you can read my earlier post from April 11, 2007.
2 comments:
I heard someone say the other day.
"If God did today what we see him do in the Old Testament we would compare him to Hitler and other great ethnic cleansing catastrophes that have occurred in our century."
Just a thought they had and it brings to mind questions...but not even sure what they all are yet. A challenge from the Old Testament that many un-churched are asking...how do we address it today.
Yeah, that is a good question and could be the center of some long conversations...
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