Megan (Fort Wayne, IN)'s comments from Read, Write, and Meditate on the Word Bible Study Showing 1-5 of 5

Megan’s comments from the Read, Write, and Meditate on the Word Bible Study group.

Day 11 Genesis 1:22-23

God Blessed Them:
A blessing is to wish or to will some good to the object or being being blessed

Words have power! Change your words and change your attitude. What first came to mind with regards to this was obviously sneezing, we say “bless you” firstly do you MEAN it when you say it, donyou even realize your saying it? We need to say it with the intention of wishing that person to be blessed.

More than that tho I wonder why we wait until these moments to say it? Why are we not praying for blessings of others when we brush our hair? When we get in our cars, when we say goodbye?

Or how about when we’re upset with the person who cut us off? Or the person who got a promotion over you, or the child who is being obstinate, or the boss you think doesn’t see your efforts, or the spouse who didn’t do some “chore”, or the person who hurt your feelings.

Today’s challenge is more than turning negative thoughts to prayers but to say a blessing and wish good to the person who may have wronged you, or who YOU perceived HURT you. why would you want to do this? Well consider the person who cut you off, stepping outside ourselves we can see maybe they were distracted, maybe they were in a hurry to an interview for their dream job and wanted to make a good impression, we really don’t know why it happened and to assume the wished to hurt you is kinda presumptuous isn’t it?

So not only are we changing our own day by changing our thoughts to thanks for our own blessings, but wishing blessings on to someone else is spreading love into a situation that otherwise would have been left to stew and hate.

Read write and reflect(using questions at front as a starting point)

What I learned from this today was that Gods timing is his own, that he is the ultimate and everything created or that is created is bc of him, that might seem like a “duh” comment but as opposed to reading and hearing that for many years today I actually UNDERSTOOD what that means.

Day 1: November 1: Genesis1:1-2, what might seem like a fairly straight forward text, make sure to do the additional work and cross references, having a good study bible will assist you in finding associated texts, and help glean a better understanding of some of the information youre reading about.

Welcome;
this month we will be focusing our Bible Study on Genesis chapters 1 and 2

Each day will be another verse or set of verses. they correspond to the pages in the book. We will be answering the questions that are in the front of the book for EACH page of verses. And then illustrating, and meditating on the accompanying page. illustrations and notes can include commentary from other scholars, or simply maps or images to help you remember or to better associate the text with locations and people.

Please make sure to share your insights to this discussion, you may have found a verse that ties in with the text that no one else did and sharing will help us all learn.

Dont worry if youre not an artist, this is meant to stretch your understanding and is really for your own reference.

Megan’s Comments (group member since Oct 31, 2019)

Read, Write, and Meditate on the Word Bible Study