Real People, Real Events - Ruminating in the Word of God

The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in 1 Chronicles 1:1-4,

"Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah.The sons of Noah: Shem, Ham and Japheth."

The opening chapters of 1 Chronicles document a skeleton outline of the genealogical lines from Adam to Noah to Abraham and to the tribes of Judah. Included in the listing are some references to lines that go in other directions as well. Not all generations are documented here, but it provides something of a "Cliff Notes" summary of some of the generations.

Here in this first chapter, the text takes us from Adam down to Jacob (Israel). The second chapter picks up on the sons of Jacob that make up the tribes of Israel.

I am reminded that this is not just a list of names. The events and persons described in the Scriptures were real people that lived in real places that experienced the events documented - they actually took place.

For me, personally, what might be considered to be a dry bit of genealogical data, is the reminder that what I read of in the Scriptures is not something that just floated down from heaven without reference to real people and real events, but a factual account of the things of God within the affairs of real people who lived and died - people just as us.

Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!

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