#1=God, Not Me.

I know it is the same day, but I had to get a head start on my endeavor to read the entire Bible in one year if I ever hope to finish. I have decided to pull out a Chronological Bible that I received from my parents. It puts the Bible into, you guess it, chronological order for easier understanding of when events were actually taking place. The Bible is an NLT, New Living Translation, and I will post the verses as I go as well, in case you would like to read along with me. Feel free to post your thoughts on these verses, and maybe we can learn from each other :)

Today's Reading: Genesis 1:1-3:24

Today's reading highlighted the day the world was born, the day humanity came into existence. According to every textbook I have received from my public education the Earth was created billions of years ago by some kind of explosion, causing life to form one cellular development at a time. To be honest I'm not that open-minded when it comes to my textbook's very original description of how the Earth came to be on complete accident. My bad.

According to this passage that I have read many a time, God created the Earth and everything in it in six days, and took the seventh day to rest. Here is a brief summary of what each day entailed:

Day One: Light and Dark/Day Two: Sky/Day Three: Land and Vegetation/Day Four: The Sun, Moon, and Stars/ Day Five: Fish and Birds/ Day Six: Land Animals and Humans/ Day Seven: Nap Time!

What a rough week that must have been. I was doing my share of complaining after the first week of my roughest semester yet, including the following classes: Large Animal Nursing, Microbiology, Parasitology, Pharmacology, Small Animal Health Management, and Lab Animal Nursing. While balancing 18 credit hours, a small part time job, and a New Year's resolution of losing more than a few pounds for my cousin's wedding in April would be enough to give anyone a headache after their first wekk, God created a whole Universe and took only one day to rest. Then again He is God, and I am not. Maybe that's more of a lesson that I need to learn than I realize. I am not God, my life should not center around me. There are what? 7 Billion people on the Earth and I like to entertain the idea that I am more important than the next person? I think I need to take a Humble pill and start putting other's ahead of myself. In a way, that is the only way I may start to stand out in such a large crowd of people living their lives as #1, myself included.

Back to the part where God makes Woman :) "Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him."...So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man slept, the Lord God took out one of the man's ribs....Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib."

I read an interesting quote from one of my friend's Facebook statuses that read: "God made woman from man's side, not from his feet to be trampled upon, not from his head to be superior, but from his side to be equal, under the arm to be protected and close to the heart to be loved". In a society of women trying to be equivalent to men, I find it more refreshing when a woman learns that she is just as strong as a man....in different areas. I would think that a woman going out to chop up firewood with a big axe would look just as silly to a man as a man sitting in a rocking chair watching his favorite Musical while knitting a sweater would look to a woman. I guess I feel like our country's divorce rate is up to 50% for a reason, Man and Woman both trying to be the lead, both wanting to lead the steps and missing out on a beautiful dance if they would only follow eachother, learning from eachother's mistakes, and being strong where the other is weak.

The last part of today's reading was when Satan slithered his little snaky self over to Eve and twisted his words just right to make it seem okay to eat that fruit. I wonder what kind of things I get pulled into just by others putting such a spin on it that it seems okay. I also wonder what kind of things I pull others into by convincing them its okay, maybe without even realizing it.

Thanks for reading! I wonder if all of my entries will be so long, I may have to pick one topic per reading to comment on so these don't go on forever. I guess I'll learn as I go...which is what this blog is all about really.

Until tomorrow, Alissa.