The Book of God

You know, I was thinking today just how fortunate I am! It seems easy to sometimes see all these things whirling around flying by us so fast we feel we cannot keep up! You know what though? God is in control. I was listening to a song today, I can't recall the artist... but the song repeats over and over, "What a Faithful God have I...What a faithful God!" I LOVE that song!! It so inspires me and just makes me raise my hands to the heavens!! We do have a faithful God. For years upon years, He has been faithful and true. He wants what is best for us and has been guiding us to it since the beginning. The sad thing is, we as a nation....never seem to learn!

My husband and I have been reading a book called The Book of God, it is a novel of the Bible. It is awesome. I have learned so much....just having it in a format that I could understand better and keep track of has been great. ( It could never replace reading your Bible, mind you) I was a little nervous at first, as I do not want to be reading anything that is someones version of the Bible. This is not in that category!! We have been reading it when we are in the car or going to bed at night, whenever we can.... It has been just been a nice thing to do together.

But anyway.... So far we have read about the promise God made Abraham and Sara.... About Issac and Esau and Jacob. Jacob's long journey for a wife. We have read about Jacob's son, Joseph and the drought. We have read about Moses and the plagues, and the journey out of Egypt. We have read how the battles have been fought and how wonderfully God has been with them in winning the battles and winning the land. We have read about what happens when you disobey God, and what happens when you obey. It has been terrific!

In each chapter it begins by talking about the things that are going on and how the people have forgotten how God delivered them, the things they have endured with Him and how He has led them and taken care of them. They forget all of this and then it seems nothing is going right at all, so THEN they call on God. I have just been amazed at how much in all of these years, how humans have stayed so much the same! We know the rules, we know what happens when we obey and when we don't. We know what wonders God is capable of, and yet we try to control it all. It seems like after all these thousands and thousands of years, we would have learned how it all works. But NO, we haven't learned it yet. It is amazing and sad at the same time.

I wish so bad that Greg and I had a week off together that we could read and read this book! By the way, It is written by Walter Wangerin, Jr. He lives here in Indiana.

The following is by Philip Yancey ( if you can't trust Philip, who can you trust?) "Walter Wangering has accomplished a feat of imagination and faith. What a modern paraphrase does for the words, sentences, and paragraphs of the Bible, Wangerin does for its underlying narrative. He does not analyze, or commentate~ he renders. It is told with exciting detail and passionate energy... low comedy, high drama, gentle humor and awesome holiness.... imaginative and yet meticulously researched.