January 4th, 2011 - Day 1

I have decided that this year with the help of God I will read through the Bible for the first time! So pray for me please because I can't think of one thing that I have really stuck to for so long. My plan is to help me keep up with it I am going to make myself accountable to one blog a day to write about something that stuck out to me when reading. I am following a Discipleship Journal Bible Reading Plan. So today I read the following: Matthew 1:1-17, Acts 1:1-11, Psalms 1 and Genesis 1-2. I read from the King James Version.

The majority of what stuck out to me was in Genesis and first it was Genesis 2:10-14, And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

My thoughts: Now you may be thinking... really why that? But I guess I never knew there was a river that split off 4 directions from the garden of Eden. And to mention that there is gold and it is good... imagine being in a place where you can just see gold in the earth? I mean I am sure that then that gold was nothing more than just beauty to them, they had no need to use it for money, but imagine seeing gold sparkling in the ground... It also surprises me that the same river that went out of Eden went to Ethiopia, a country which is one of the poorest in the world now.

Genesis 2:23-24, And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

My thoughts: This is a concept not everyone can handle. The thought of "family first" superceeds their thoughts on this. But when a man marrys a woman, that woman becomes his family to put first. Of course it doesn't mean that the man should forget about his family but he has new priorities in life and for a mother or father or either the man or the woman to think that their child should put them above their spouse is just plain wrong and against God's word. God is first, and the spouse is second. He has new responsibilities. I won't go into too much detail on this one, you get the point. Let's just say its something I have had to deal with for over 5 years now.