Life Goes On and So Does The Bible

This time in Genesis we see that God does keep his promises. He had made a covenant with Abram and blessed him by “multiplying (him) exceedingly” (Genesis 17: 2) something else that happens is that God tells Abram his name will now be Abraham. I think this is interesting and it is weird at the same time. Why change your name? Even though his name wasn’t changed to something very different, it was still changed. God said that he would change his name because he was going to be the father of many nations and I think that the name had to somewhat be longer. The funny thing is that his wife Sarai has also her name changed, to Sarah, I believe because of the same reason.

Talking about her, we see in these chapters that she is also blessed and this time with something she had believed impossible, something like having a child at a very old age. This give me hope, to know that God cares so much about us that he will actually bless us, sometimes when we least think about it. Because like it said in chapter 18 verse 14, “Is any thing too hard for the LORD?” the answer is no. He is God and can do anything, we are the ones that actually have to try to do something.

Something I really like is what Abraham asks God. “Thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?” (Genesis 18: 23) maybe many of us have asked that question, and the answer was that if even if there were only ten righteous between a whole city of wicked, he would still preserve their lives. This might seem unfair to some, but I think God would make the best jury of all. He knows exactly what, why, when and how things have to happen.

There was a story that seemed to be very familiar, and that we had already read in Metamorphoses, I don’t know it they copied from the Bible, or if it was the other way around, but it was anyways practically the same. In Metamorphoses, it’s known as the story of Myrrha and her father. In the Bible it’s the story of two girls, who say “Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father” (Genesis 19: 32).

Next is Isaac, Abrahams and Sarah’s son, the one that blessed their lives and who also made sure to continue what should be called part of the life cycle. Yes, he falls in love. Her name was Rebekah and she became a great comfort to him, and what we will find out latter a great mother too.