I am reading the Bible following the "One Story That Leads to Jesus" plan from the Bible Project. Today I was reading from Deuteronomy 3 and I came across these verses that made me think:
The LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you, and you have not lacked anything. Deuteronomy 3:7, ESV Even in the wilderness, the place where the Israelites were wandering because they chose not to trust God, God still took care of them. He provided for all of their needs. The wilderness is a hard place to be whether we are there by our on doing to not. We need to remember that when God seems far away and the wilderness before us is vast, God is still watching over us.
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I just wanted to share this new idea that I got from some of the things that I have been reading about God's word. Scripture is full of echos. An echo is something that is a repeat of something that was just spoken only a little fainter.
There are many times in scripture when a verse or a story or a poem refer to another part of scripture. I am going to call this an echo. While you can read the scriptures without knowing all the connections a passage may have to other passages, you get a much deeper meaning when you have studied the scripture enough to make the connections. In other words after you have read scripture for a while you develop the ability to hear the echos. For example, when you read that Jesus was tempted in the wilderness for 40 days you can hear the echo of the people of Israel who wandered in the wilderness for 40 years. And another example, when you hear God say at Jesus's baptism, "you are my son," you can hear the echo of Psalm 2:7-8, NIV, "I will proclaim the LORD'S decree: He said to me, “You are my son; today I have become your father. Ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. There are so many more echos in all of scripture. It takes time to read and study the scripture enough to be able to hear the echos. It also helps to have bible scholars to help point them out to you. I like this idea of echos and I want to begin to ask God for each scripture that I study that he shows me the echos. |
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