Michele on Genesis
Okay, so…longest book we’ve done so far. I really enjoyed Genesis, more than I thought I would! The lectures (by Eileen) were REALLY good and opened up my eyes a little and prepared me to dive into studying it myself. I love how it was mostly stories. These are stories I’ve grown up hearing, but studying it this way has brought tons of meaning into them. Moses wrote to the Israelites who had just come out of 400 years of slavery in Egypt. He wrote this history for them because they had none before it. They possibly knew some of this stuff through stories handed down through the years orally, but probably most of this stuff they were hearing was new to them. These stories also open up, MOSTLY I should say, the involvement of God in Israel’s history. These stories reveal SO clearly God’s sovereignty, faithfulness, grace, love, and mercy towards the Israelites. Genesis shows how the nation as a whole even got started.
I am so thankful for the book of Genesis and that I got to study it. I cannot even put into words how much I learned from it this past week (especially because my fingers are very tired from typing Haha! ) But seriously, I learned so much about God, his sovereignty, his faithfulness, patience, and grace through this book. The characters are not really the perfect heroes children’s books sometimes make them out to be. These were normal people who made MANY mistakes, and yet God showed them SO much grace and mercy. He used them, regardless of their faults, to accomplish his plans. He turned their ugliness into beauty. He used their mistakes and turned situations into something good. This book showed me so much of the goodness of God. He really is good and worthy of my trust. I’m thankful I can say I serve a God like this. 