I'm off and reading! I'm heading into this adventure a little before the February 1 kick off because I'm preaching from these texts and have to get a little ahead things. If you're not reading as far ahead as I am, just look at the older posts.
I'm trying to keep my seminary-trained brain a little at bay as I do this reading. I'm trying not to instantly grab a commentary or Hebrew dictionary. Instead, I'm trying to just settle into the Bible and see how the plain flow of the reading hits me. As I read through this all-too-familiar beginning of the Bible I noticed for the first time how much of it is about getting the planet organized. Could God be a Presbyterian? In the Beginning everything seemed to be just a mess with planetary stuff just strewn every which way (sort of like a certain teenager's room I know). But then God comes along and mostly just spends time sorting things out: Light is separated from dark. Water from land. Heaven from earth. Everything is put in its place in nice neat little piles. It makes me think all the more of the "place" God intends for me in all of this. God didn't just throw everything around and expect us to clean up the mess. It's more the other way around. God put everything in a certain place so that it all works right and the more we learn about where stuff belongs, the better our lives work. If only I could get God to straiten out my basement!
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