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September 1, 2021 8:00 pm
When Colin opened the box of stained-glass pieces he’d purchased, instead of finding the fragments he’d ordered for a project, he discovered intact, whole windows. He sleuthed out the windows’ origins and learned they'd been removed from a church to protect them from World War II bombings. Colin marveled at the quality of work and how the “fragments” formed a beautiful picture.
If I’m honest, there are times when I open particular passages of the Bible—such as chapters containing lists of genealogies—and I don’t immediately see how they fit within the bigger picture of Scripture. Such is the case with Genesis 11—a chapter that contains a repetitive cadence of unfamiliar names and their families, such as Shem, Shelah, Eber, Nahor, and Terah (vv. 10–32). I’m often tempted to gloss over these sections and skip to a part that contains something that feels familiar and fits more easily into my “window” of understanding of the Bible’s narrative.
Since “all Scripture is given by the inspiration of God and is profitable” (2 Timothy 3:16), the Holy Spirit can help us better understand how a fragment fits into the whole, opening our eyes to see, for example, how Shelah is related to Abram (Genesis 11:26), the ancestor of David and—more importantly—Jesus (Matthew 1:2, 6, 17). He delights in surprising us with the treasure of a perfectly intact window where even the smaller parts reveal the story of God’s mission throughout the Bible.
Hi and welcome to this Thursday edition of Our Daily Bread. I'm Tristan Humbert and I hope you enjoyed today's devotional reading that I titled the big story of the Bible when Colin open the box and stained glass pieces he purchased. Instead of finding the fragments he'd ordered for project he discovered intact whole Windows. He sluiced out the windows origin and learned they'd been removed from the church to protect them from World War II bombings. Colin marveled at the quality of work and how the fragments formed a beautiful picture if I'm honest there are times when I open particular passages of the Bible, such as chapters, containing lists of genealogies. I don't immediately see how they fit within the bigger picture of Scripture, such as the case with Genesis 11 a chapter that contains a repetitive cadence of unfamiliar names and their families such as Shem, Shella, Heber made her Tara. I'm often tempted to gloss over these sections and skip to a part that contains something that feels familiar and fits more easily into my window of understanding of the Bible's narrative. Since all Scripture is God breathed and is useful. The Holy Spirit can help us better understand how a fragment fits into the whole opening our eyes to see, for example, how Shella is related to Abram the ancestor of David, and more importantly Jesus.
He delights in surprising us with the treasurer of a perfectly intact window where even the smaller parts reveal the story of God's mission throughout the Bible.
Today Our Daily Bread devotional Scripture reading is from Genesis chapter 11 versus 26 through 32. After Tara lived 70 years he became the father of Abram Ney her and Haran. This is the account of Tara's family line.
Tara became the father Abram Ney her and Haran, and Haran became the father of Lot while his father Tara was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans in the land of his birth Abram Ney her both married. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai in the name of neighbors wife with milk. She was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Mielke and Esca now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive. Tara took his son Abram's grandson lot son of Haran and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram and together they set out from the Chaldeans to go to Canaan, but when they came to her.
Ron. They settled their Tara lived 205 years and he died in her Ron. Let's pray father God, thank you for being the master craftsman of the Bible and all of history. Please help us to see you and your work more clearly in Jesus name we pray.
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