#genesis 3 23

[paulgadzikowski]

i dowanna break your heart kurt but i've moved around a lot and i have a bed in the town where i grew up right now. it's less than two feet away

devastating that you can live somewhere and then move away and someone else moves in and they live there and you don’t live there anymore but you lived there once

[canisonicscrewyou]

I Am This Great Unstable Mass Of Blood And Foam And No Emotion That’s Worth Having Would Call My Heart It’s Home My Heart Is An Autoclave

[freebiblestudies]

Lesson 050: The Unforgiven

Genesis 50:15-17 - When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “Perhaps Joseph will hate us, and may actually repay us for all the evil which we did to him.”  So they sent messengers to Joseph, saying, “Before your father died he commanded, saying, ‘Thus you shall say to Joseph: “I beg you, please forgive the trespass of your brothers and their sin; for they did evil to you.” ’ Now, please, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

Why did Joseph’s brothers tell such a story to Joseph after their father died?  Weren’t they all at peace with each other at this point?

Let’s read together Genesis 27:41-42 and Genesis 42:21-22.

Joseph’s brothers were still wracked with guilt for how they treated Joseph, selling him into slavery, and lying to their father about everything.  They were afraid Joseph was only being kind to them for the sake of their father.  Now that Jacob was dead, they were afraid Joseph would finally take revenge upon them.

Why did Joseph weep when he heard their story?

Let’s read together Genesis 45:3-8 and John 11:25, 32-37.

Perhaps Joseph cried because he realized his brothers still didn’t think of him as one of them.  Perhaps Joseph cried because their story brought back memories of past trauma.  Perhaps he cried because he had already forgiven them, but they did not believe his words.

Let’s read together Genesis 50:18-21; Matthew 6:15; Matthew 18:35; Mark 11:25; and Romans 3:23.

Joseph did not want servants - he wanted brothers and family.  Joseph once again freely forgave his brothers.  He reassured them he would not retaliate against them for the wrongs they had committed against him in the past.

Why does God ask us to forgive those who sinned against us?  We all have sinned against God, yet He is willing to forgive us when we confess our sins and repent.  In the same way, we must follow Jesus Christ’s example in forgiveness.

[tmglineaday]

I used to live here

[jennying-my-thebes]

" living room to bedroom to kitchen

familiar and warm

hours we spent starving within these walls

sounds of a distant storm "

[john-gosh-darnielle]

I used to live

here

[mylostcigarettes]

I used to live here

Genesis 3:23

Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

I have never felt loved

So truly and completely encompassed

I think home does that to a person

I want to be held like my childhood home held me

I want to be comforted the way my bed used to

I want to be praised and loved and wanted

This house is the only place that wanted me

And now it doesn't

This house is now you

The mortar in it, the speckle on the wall screams your name

I have left and my pictures rot in the basement

My brothers finger burns with the old doorframes in the oven to keep you warm

I find home in other people

Lose it in others as well

But those don't force me to abandon them

They hold me one last time and let me go

And that still hurts like a bitch

But I hope that they at least know

And I hope that they ache with me

Our house has never ached, you never let it

As I left you held every wall, yes every brick in place so it naught move

You replaced them all

So that even the memory of me might not perceiver in them

You made this house a home for you by stripping it of me

I hope nobody has to strip themselves of me

I hope that even after we decide to part they carry me with them

I hope I last at least in inconsequential ways

I don't need a big impact

I just wanted you to remember

[unloneliest]

listening to the life of the world to come the way i analyze dreams. where when i dream, everything in the dream is me, no matter its shape. where in each song, there is no separation between the narrator and the world they experience. incomprable listening experience.

[dionysus-complex]

one thing I do truly love about the Mountain Goats is that I've seen them 5 times and every single show after the first has had a (semi-) deep cut or two or three that has completely etched the show into my brain

[malaisequotes]

“Pictures up on the mantle, nobody I know. I stand by the tiny furnace where the long shadows grow. Living room to bedroom to kitchen, familiar and warm. Hours we spent starving within these walls, sounds of a distant storm.”

Genesis 3:23 by The Mountain Goats

[epicdogymoment]

genesis 3:23 is my favourite song about haunted houses

[touchofgoddotworld]

The Father's Grace to Rescue Us from Deserved Punishment (264) - September 21 2024

Choose your Podcast App to Play this episode This week we look at God’s Grace. God is love, and so it is the love of the Great Jehovah for His creation, that reveals itself through His grace (undeserved favor) and mercy (withholding of deserved punishment). All of humanity gets to choose whether to love God in return, receive the undeserved free gift of salvation. This program covers the…

[naturalbornlosers]

i found absolutely ancient photos i took when i was a kid on an old SD card . no this is not the plot to a found footage horror film but i AM absurdly nostalgic

[freebiblestudies]

Line Upon Line Lesson 023: A Foreigner and a Visitor

Genesis 23:3-4 - Then Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying, “I am a foreigner and a visitor among you. Give me property for a burial place among you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Sarah passed away in the land of Canaan at the age of 127 years.  Abraham mourned for her and came to the sons of Heth to purchase land so that he could properly bury her.

Let’s read together Genesis 51:2; Hebrews 11:11; and 1 Peter 3:3-6. 

Despite her flaws, Sarah ultimately showed herself to be a faithful and godly woman.  She is cited as an example to look up to in both the Old and New Testaments.

Let’s read together Leviticus 25:23; 1 Chronicles 29:14-15; Psalm 39:12; and Hebrews 11:13-16.

Some biblical scholars have argued this passage is significant because it is a step towards the fulfillment of God’s covenant promise.  Abraham, a nomadic wanderer, is setting up roots in Canaan, the land of promise for his descendants.

However, I find his admission to be “a foreigner and a visitor among you” to be the most significant part of this passage.  Is Abraham telling the sons of Heth he is from Ur of the Chaldees?  I don’t think so.  Rather, Abraham’s words point to his recognition that his true home was in heaven.  Abraham’s descendants including Moses and Abraham also acknowledged this reality.  God’s people throughout the ages have also looked forward to a better heavenly country.

Let’s read together 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and Hebrews 11:39-40.

While Abraham was heaven-focused, he still lived and reacted to the present realities in life.  He mourned the death of his beloved wife.  However, unlike those who do not believe in God, Abraham had hope and reassurance he would see her again one day.

Friend, will you follow Abraham’s example to be heaven-focused?

[tmglineaday]

Fight through the ghosts in the hallway

[jennying-my-thebes]

" see how the people here live now

hope that they're better at it than i was "