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This first chapter in Matthew seems so boring to me right at first. It's just a long lineage of Jesus decedents... which was very important for the fulfilling of prophecy, but I still think it is boring... Until I noticed that there were three women in the lineage; Tamar, Rahab, and Ruth. Women weren't given much attention in the Jewish culture, so it strikes me as being odd that they are mentioned in Jesus lineage. But what is even odder is that Tamar is mentioned because she disguised herself as a prostitute in order to have sex with her father-in-law in order to have a baby (Genesis 38). Doesn't seem like the type of person I would want to put in the list of Jesus lineage. Rahab was a prostitute. A real full-time prostitute. I think it is amazing that God decides to include these women who had some really screwed up pasts. What's even cooler is that God decided to list Rahab in the "Faith Hall Of Fame" in Hebrews 11:31 along side some of the greatest men in the old testament. God seems to judge people completely different than we do. I think it is so awesome that he invites us to come to Him without having to have a history of great performances trailing behind us. He honors us for our hearts and he doesn't discriminate against us in the ways that our society might. Grace is a beautiful thing!
ReplyDeleteOne of the reasons why biblical scholars say that the story of Jesus is real is because in Jewish lineage the last kind of a person that you would put there would be someone like Rahab or Tamar. I mean this is the messiah. If I was making it up why not put all kinds of kings and prophets in the lineage. Not real people who have real issues and problems. It's this warts and all approach to the scriptures that interestingly make the story of Jesus and the Bible sound suspiciously authentic and true.
ReplyDeleteWhen i saw the reading for today i thought, oh great, i get to read Genesis again, ill just skim that part. I was one of those people who would set out in determination to read the Bible and, of course, not knowing anything about anything I would start at Geneis. So i've read that book quite a few times.
ReplyDeleteAnyways, its funny because its the passage i enjoyed most today, i actually went a little farther than i was supposed to because i got sucked in.
Today i was thinking i wonder how long it took Adam to name all the animals, and how he must have been, by the end of it, like hey why is there only one of me.. And you know God knew, when he said that it wasn't good for Adam to be alone and he was going to make a helper "suitable" for him that it wasn't going to be one of those animals, still this was his process. I just imagine God watching Adam go through the process, and think of how he is the same with us. By the time he finally had Eve, its no wonder he said "at LAST!". I don't know if it would have been such a celebration if he hadn't gone through all those animals first.
Every time I find myself in some situation where im like 'God why are you letting this happen, why don't you change this' i know that ive got something to learn and ill come out the other side of it really grateful he didn't give into my whining and pleading to 'get me out of it'. It's happened so many times. He's so good.