Today is Sunday, and I love Sunday's. There is something about them, not just because I attend our church on Sunday, but there is a solidness about Sunday's for me. Doesn't it seem like each day of the week has it's own feel to it? I know the Bible says "this is the day that the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it" so God has blessed all days for us, but there is just something special about Sunday's.
My reading today was Genesis 35,36 & 37.
It never ceases to amaze me how much can happen in just a few pages of the Bible. Big stuff. In chapter 35 alone are the records of Rachel's and Isaac's death.
Rachel dies giving birth to her last son, who her husband Jacob names Benjamin. (I'm a little partial to Benjamin, as my only son bears the same name). I thought back to previous chapters and how much Jacob loved Rachel. How hard he worked for her brother Laban for 20 years just because he loved her so much. I remember in Genesis 29:20 how Jacob had worked the first 7 years for her hand in marriage and it says "and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her."
Chapter 35 doesn't record any emotion from Jacob about the loss of Rachel, but I could almost feel his grief. It says that "he set up a pillar over her tomb, which is there to this day". The only other times that Jacob sets up pillars are in the places where he has met with The Lord God Almighty. That's interesting to me because the marriage relationship is a "type" of the relationship we are to have with God.
Chapter 36 contains genealogy records of Esau, which although hard to read, line by line (it would be so easy to just skim over the genealogies) sometimes you come upon real nuggets of information right smack dab in the middle of a genealogy, but I can't say that I did in chapter 36. On to chapter 37.
Chapter 37 contains the awesome story of Joseph, the dreamer. How out of jealously his brothers throw him into a pit, later to be sold to Midianite traders, passing by. The brothers devise a lie to tell their father Jacob, who loved Joseph. Again we see the pattern of deception in the line of Jacob. Jacob is distraught at the thought of his beloved Joseph being eaten by wild animals and cannot be comforted in the loss of his son. Imagine those brothers seeing their dad go through such agony and knowing all the while that Joseph was still alive. Just to cover up their evil doings.
Chapter 37 ends with Joseph being sold in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh. Joseph is about to be tested in many ways. I'm really looking forward to my Bible reading tomorrow. I hope you are as well!
Go Vikings! :o)
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