The older
I become, the more I am impressed with the many genealogies
found in the Bible. Perhaps you wonder why. As I read
them--and some of the names are unpronounceable--I realize that
everyone of those people mentioned in the verses before my eyes
were people--human beings--with lives just like mine. Their
mothers bore them with labor pains just like I had when I bore
my children. They cared about their offspring and wanted them to
have the best that life could offer. They taught them the skills
of life such as hunting, fishing, cooking, sewing.
They instructed their children in
proper etiquette and manners to get by socially in the world
about them. They cared! They
cried! They loved! They laughed! And they died! Just because
they had funny names and lived so long ago did not make the men
in Genesis, chapter 11, less of a man because we have no
pictures of them or any of their birth certificates or their
voting records.
Now that my husband and I are
getting older and making our way up to the dying position in our
life’s journeys.
I think about these names--Salah, Eber, Peleg, Reu, Serug,
Nahor, Terah, Abram, Sarai. They were people. We know
where some of them are buried. When they died, their loved ones
cared and cried. Their children told their grandchildren about
them. Better still, they are mentioned on the pages of
Scripture, never to be forgotten. Praise the Lord for
genealogies and the lives of people important enough to God to
be written down for our learning and admonition to give us
living people "hope (ysw)."
"SERVE THE LORD
WITH FEAR, REJOICE WITH TREMBLING"
(Psalm 2:11)
What a great and majestic God is
our Lord God Almighty! We should have all our service
unto Him with reverence. Even our praise should be with
thanksgiving, honor and awe! When we consider whom we serve, we
are humbled That He accepts our service–so small, so frail, so
faulty.
(GGS)
And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said,
Behold, in the tent. And he said, I will certainly return unto
thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife
shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which
was behind him. (Genesis 18:10)
