The Bible In A Year 364
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Nehemiah 12-13, Revelation 21
25 thoughts on "The Bible In A Year 364"
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Good morning friends! I can’t believe this is the second to last day in the reading plan. I felt myself getting overwhelmed reading Rev 21 today. Such beauty, peace, joy and light! I also liked the description of the wall around the new Jerusalem..especially as we finished Nehemiah today.
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Agreed!
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I like how he pauses to ask the Lord for mercy for the good things he has done to get Judah back in line. Very interesting to me.
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I agree, I too found that interesting. Because a lot of time we don’t stop to ask God for mercy when we do good things, we assume it will be given to us.
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I think that’s interesting too. I think it’s interesting how he’s asking God to use his good works to atone for his sins. As Christians we know that works alone cannot save us. But maybe it’s alluding to when Jesus said “faith without works is dead.” Maybe he was asking God to see that he’s been doing the works and his faith in Him isn’t dead. Idk, I have to think about this more haha
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Thanks, Chelsea! That is helpful to me, too. I struggle with the same thing, Melissa. It is hard as a first time reader to muddle through it because you come to the Word to experience what everyone else is experiencing and it seems overwhelming. In passage like this, I just think of how I’m always learning and I think Of it like a history lesson. @melissa @chelsea
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I don’t understand why it has to give all the names of all these people all at once is all. Maybe I’m so hung up on that I’m not really retaining it.
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Melissa- a lot of the Old Testament is partly a history of the time, which is why all the names are in there. It’s just a historical account of who was there.
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It’s like reading the historical records for a farmhouse or castle. We might not care how many ice blocks they bought or who came to what feast, but it was important then. =)
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Sometimes, when going through these accounts, reading a long list of names helps me remember that these were real people too. They actually struggled through this stuff and were faithful in it, and as a result their names got written in the Bible! How cool is that?
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I feel the same way, but there’s something beautiful in the details. Like Chelsea said, it was important then… and for some reason it is sticking out to you. I pray when I don’t understand, and I come to different conclusions. Sometimes I realize that the details bug me because I’m trying to rush to God’s message, and other times I realize that God includes the names because He knows us all by name… Of course I could just be rambling here because I struggle with these names and numbers as much as you.
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This is my first time reading the Bible. It’s just overwhelming for me. All the heads and all the fathers of this person etc. This day just really felt overwhelming and I didn’t understand anything i read. I’m back tonight to read it again.
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@Melissa
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What’s confusing you?
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This is so confusing. I’ve read it four times.
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