Week 3: We Shall

Day 13

• Romans 4
• Genesis 12:1-9
• All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.
  I'm part of the earth, part of this dysfunctional, loving, hating, annoying, helpful, hurtful family.  And God arranged blessings for me through a man who lived thousands of years ago.  But it was not because Abram was particularly special as much as God was indescribably special and see Abram as a great vessel through which his creation could receive these blessings.
• Day 14

Psalm 121

Lord whatever this day may bring, your name be praised.

Jesus dealt with disciples who heard his truth but were still confused and he had to call the devil out.  Like the other spirits, as well as some of those he healed, Jesus asked that they not tell anyone.  

The Psalmist writes about a God that travels with them, shields and protects them, and takes the watch no matter the hour.  If I took a road trip with anyone I knew, I would most likely get annoyed with them at some point or another in the journey.  I'm sure God, as he travels with us (invited or not) he must see us doing things stubbornly, wrong, backwards, with the wrong intention, without the instructions (his word) and yet he hangs around and gently keeps us from driving off the road or getting irrevocably lost.  He keeps us from being ravaged by the dangers inherit in travelling and he does this all in spite of ourselves.  Like Peter, and the spirit within him, we do not know how God works but we are quick to jump up about what we think we know.

Day 15

• Philippians 3:12-21
• Philippians 4
• "...Lord hurry to my rescue" 
  
  
  "But easy street is a dead-end street. Those who live there make their bellies their gods; belches are their praise; all they can think of is their appetites."
   

Day 16
Psalm 70

The urgency of this call to rescue skips past buttering God up about who He is and what He can do and goes directly to asking Him TO do.
Day 17
Mark 6
The demons didn't want to leave, but the man, once of his right mind, couldn't wait to go.  This chapter has miracle after miracle, one inside the other.
Day 18
Mark 6
Surely, one of the siblings of Jesus had children.  As meticulously as the records were kept for genealogies, someone surely might have thought it important to keep up with the line.
Day 19
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