1 Chronicles - Making history

Well...we've pretty much been through the entire Biblical story by the time we get to Chronicles. Starting in Chronicles the writers begin to re-tell the story...with changes. One thing we learn as we read the entire Bible is that it rarely likes to tell a story only once. Instead, it retells it again and again in a number of variations. Rather than spending lots of time and energy trying to "harmonize" all these versions of stories, we should ask ourselves what message God is telling us through these multiple tellings. Maybe, any story is impossible to tell in only one way. Maybe the only way to be truthful about something is it look at it from a number of different angles. What does this say about our own lives and how we should look at ourselves? Maybe it's always helpful to get multiple perspectives on how to perceive ourselves. As you read through the re-tellings in the rest of the Old Testament...look for what's new in the story. How is it shedding new and different light on the same old thing?