March 4                                            Genesis 49:  29-50:  14; 1 Corinthians 12:  1-11;

                                                                                      Mark 8:  11-26

 

 

 

God is speaking to us through the Scriptures.  My words are my interpretation of the words read in the three passages assigned to me.  They cover many situations that are difficult to understand.  One tells how Jesus fed 4,000 hungry people in the desert with seven loaves of bread and a few small fish, and had leftovers.  Another reminds the reader to take communion with the right attitude or he shouldn’t take it.  In Genesis, Jacob plans his funeral and where to bury him in a cave, that would be a place others that went before him were buried.  Then it tells of the family (Joseph and the brothers) getting together after his death.

 

No two or three people would read these passages and come up with the same meaning that God is saying.  Or reading them again, some additional thoughts not reasoned the first time.  That is why Bible study groups with several people “brain storming” the meaning of the passage is not the final answer.  Everyone’s contribution is meaningful to the whole group understanding.

 

This is the reason that we are called to be a church with many members regularly attending.  God speaks to us through our discussions of the scriptures.

 

Prayer:

Dear God, may we keep striving to learn of You, and Your will for our lives!  Amen.

 

 

 

~ Jim Derby