01.08.2010

Today's reading is Genesis 15, 16, Psalm 8, Proverbs 8, and Matthew 11.

Today has been quite a day. It's days like today that discourage me. It is times like now that the fact that you may one day read this, that spurs me on to actually read and write daily. Your comments, on current or past posts are a great encouragement.

Genesis today, Abram is promised a family and even though his wife is barren. His family is to inherit the land of another people and those people would be the servants of his descendants. Then after being promised a family, God's speed was a bit too slow, so Abram's wife said impregnation Hagar the servant. The Lord promises Hagar that her son Ishmael would be the father of uncountable offspring.

David writes in the Psalm that creation is the amazing and even more amazing is that the Lord gave it to man. He wonders as I have and you probably have, at how amazing it is that the Lord gave us dominion. It seems to me, if David were the creator, he wouldn't have given man dominion. I certainly wouldn't have given man the world.

Today's Proverb is a speech from Wisdom the woman. She declares for all to hear that the Lord's wisdom is as it was from the beginning. It is available for all, and it leads to great rewards. Wisdom has been with the Lord since the beginning and it is still available to us today.

What I find amazing here is John the Baptist's questions for Jesus. "Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?" When he baptized Jesus, he sure seemed to know. From there Jesus goes on to instruct the crowds once more.