Genesis 16-20

Today was all about Abraham. Yup, his name changed (finally) from Abram to Abraham. There were a lot of stories in today's passage; from change of Abraham's name to the convenant that God makes with Abraham - telling him that he will have a son - and finally, Sodom and Gomorrah. Here are some "key verses" I found very interesting.

Genesis 17:1
"I am God Almighty; walk before me and be blameless."
I found this to be a very powerful verse. We often don't really recognize God as who He is. Sometimes, we know that He's watching us, but we are never blameless. When I read this verse, I thought to myself 'When will I be blameless before God?' Got me thinking a bit.

Genesis 17:17
This verse was as if Abraham was laughing at God. Abraham probably thoght to himself, "yeah right." I found it funny how God knew about this too, but never really sad anything... BUT Sarah gets owned big time in...

Genesis 18:12-15
I thought this was really funny because of the conversation that they had. "Why did Sarah laugh?" "I didn't laugh!" "Yes you did..." LOL

Genesis 18:16-33
Such a famous story that I've heard so many times growing up. Reminds me of how important one single soul is. In stead of saying "For the sake of (blank) I will not do it" I would like to rephrase it this way: "For the sake of ONE, He will not destroy US." <-- Gets more personal this way.

Genesis 19:5
WHAT A SURPRISE!! I think this verse shows how corrupted Sodom and Gomorrah was at the time. I can't believe they wanted Lot to bring them out to just have sex. weirdddd. But got me thinking again... 'Will Jesus come when the world gets THIS corrupted?'

Genesis 19:30-35
Were Lot's daughters doing this because of culture or because they were corrupted?? I was so confused... -_-

Genesis 20:3
Final verse of the day... "You are as good as dead..." LOL I thuoght this was wayyyy too funny;;;


"Is anything too hard for the LORD?" (Genesis 18:14)
LORD! I believe in YOU! I know nothing is too hard for you! grant me whatever I ask in Your name!

Genesis 11-15

I guess two major things today... Tower of Babel and the start of Abraham's story.

FIRST OFF, Tower of Babel.

I always knew about the story, but one thing I didn't know was the meaning behind the name itself (Babel). It said "That is why it was called Babel - because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world." And I just sat there, thinking to myself, 'what a creative way of naming the tower... NOT.' haha I think all the names were very straight-forward back then. One thing that really gave me chills though was the fact that nations started to divide from this very moment. It kind of reminded me that I still have so many places to reach for God before I die. I don't know why but I just thought that.

SECOND. The Call of Abram.

Yes, ABRAM because his name hasn't changed yet. Abram and Sarai. I found it very very interesting that God promises Abram so many things. in Chapter 12, God promises that He will make Abram into a great nation and that He will bless him and make his name great(v.2). In Chapter 13, He promises him that all the land that he sees, he will give them to Abram and to his offspring (v.15). God even directly tell him to "Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you." (v.17) In Chapter 15, God promises Abram that He will be his shield, his very great reward (v.1). God also promises Abram, constantly, that his offsprings will be countless. He first compares them to the dust of the earth, then He compares them to the stars in the sky.That's why there's the song~ "Father Abraham had many sons, and many sons had father Abraham... ♪" Anyway, Abram must have been a lucky man, receiving so many promises from God.

God, promise me all the things you have promised Abram so that I may have the same blessings you have given to Abram!

Genesis 6 - 10. NOAH

Noah's short but interesting story was written in Genesis 6 to 10. Growing up in church, I was fairly fond with the story itself, but as I read it today, I saw that there were lots of details. For example, God tells Noah to build the Arc in certain way. 400 something ft long, 40 something ft high, make it three stories, etc, etc... I don't know how Noah did it, but he got it done. And as Noah was collecting the animals, I guess I saw God's strength and how He has the power over everything on earth once again. I mean, it's super hard to catch a bird. When I was young, I tried to catch a bird. I would set up trap and poured rice in the middle and waited for the bird to come for the longest time, but never happened. But Noah was able to catch (well, I guess it's not really catch but yeah;;;) them and bring all the animals to the Arc. It was fun to read it all over again.

"Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God." (Genesis 6:9)

Make me a blameless and righteous man and let me walk with you LORD!

A Scene from Evan Almighty. Imagine Noah standing like that for real. That's pretty cool. haha