"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle."
-- Ian Maclaren

Last year I stopped updating this LJ for two simple reasons:

1. Another project, Drawn By His Light, took away my time and attention. I've continued my daily reading; I just haven't commented on it ( Read more... )

In the previous post I'd reached close to the conclusion of the story of Noah's Ark; the ark itself resting on dry land and all of its occupants having gone their various ways ( Read more... )

Toward the very end of the flood story, Noah attempted to find out information about the world prior to leaving the ark. He did so by releasing a bird from a window or hatch built into the top of the boat. At this point the ark had already been beached; the waters had receded enough that it was on land again. However, just because the ark was ( Read more... )

1. There was a count-down of sorts to the flood. It seems that God waited for Methuselah (Noah's grandfather) to die before the flood began ( Read more... )

One last thing before I post about the flood. Two genealogies are given right before we get to Noah. One is the line from Cain, the other from Seth.

Check out the similarity in their names: Cain's LineSeth's Line Enoch
Irad
Mehujael
Methusael
Lamech
Jabel
Jubal
Tubalcain
Naamah Enos
Cainan
Mahalaleel
Jared
Enoch
Methuselah
Lamech

The similarity ( Read more... )

We know that by the time of Noah the Earth was full of wicked and evil people. There's a glimpse of just how disturbing people of that time were at the end of Genesis 5 ( Read more... )

I'm sure we all know the basic plot of this early story: Adam and Eve had a son, Cain. A while later they had a second son, Abel. Cain grew jealous of Abel, and this came to a head when God rejected Cain's offering but accepted Abel's. Cain lured Abel out to a field and murdered him ( Read more... )

Adam and Eve had everything catered to them in the Garden, and only one rule to live by. Pretty sweet deal. Unfortunately, to continue living there they'd have to abide by that rule, and they broke it ( Read more... )

God is often referred to as a shepherd, and the people of the church as His flock. The account in Genesis chapter 3 shows a side of this, as He stopped resting and went looking for two sheep that had wandered from the straight and narrow ( Read more... )