Howdy,
Here’s another Sunday Scripture series post. I do like these. Don’t want to do them all the time, but I enjoy writing them and—more importantly—truly hope people who read them are encouraged/inspired/blessed by the Scriptures, as I believe one would be, from the nature of God’s Word.
Changed it up a little bit in how I’ve used my iPhone’s ESV Bible app to pick a passage: rather than from my “FAVORITES,” I bounced over to “HIGHLIGHTS” for my Scripture selection. After choosing Genesis 12:1-4 for this, I promptly “favorited” the highlighted section. Not that any of this deeply matters to you as the reader, but I do see that I have a plethora more highlighted than favorited, so much remains for the pickings—and I suspect I could stray even so far as outside of my favorites and previously highlighted and find Words worth sharing.
Yep. Of course.
Today: Genesis 12:1-4. Clicking that highlight, now favorited, I remembered that I had made a tremendously significant Note on this passage (so, yes, this passage is highlighted, favorited, and been annotated, so pretty much used the app to the full on this one). The Note included a quote from a Perspectives course guest speaker, a missionary, which is why it’s “tremendously significant,” not because I made it. Here’s the note, as thumbed into my phone: “Perspective statement: ‘Most significant passage in all of Scripture.’ Setup of God’s redemptive history.”
Now, I don’t know if I do, or can, completely agree with the statement “Most significant passage in all of Scripture,” yet only because all of Scripture has a lot of significant passages, but I don’t necessarily disagree, either. If it’s involved in launching redemptive history, than I’d take it to be pretty important—and I’m tremendously grateful for it. Thankful, to the point of my very life, which is what depends on it. Redemption, that is.
Okay, so that’s the note—and point taken, also understand it’s from a missionary, who understands, “Go,” and “went.”
Here’s the sacred Biblical passage:
“Now the LORD said to Abram, ‘Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’ So Abram went, as the LORD had told him” (Genesis 12:1-4a).
“Go.”
“Went.”
“Blessing.”
Have a happy, and blessed, Sunday.
—Billy
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