another dbr attempt… Matthew 1

Before I had been apart of a Daily Bible Reading Accountability Group (or dBrag as it’s known) where each person in the group would read the same chapter of the Bible each day, then e-mail each other commenting on what they read. Thus keeping everyone to be in the Word. Well, I’m not very disciplined so that didn’t last too long. And now the need and want to be in the Word is returning (hopefully for good this time) and I am without accountability in this quest of discipline. But I’ve decided that it’s something I must do for my relationship with the Father to grow. So I’ am starting anew today (by myself in hope to maybe create another group) by beginning at the start of the New Testement in Matthew 1.

As soon as I pulled up the chapter, I remembered that it began with this long list of Jesus’ lineage….zzz zzz… boring! Yeah I was already discouraged, lol. So I stopped and I prayed for God to speak to me somehow during my reading no matter what the scripture may be. That helped because for once I found that part really interesting to see how Jesus is actually related to all those important people from the Old Testament. And for once the term “Son of David” made since! Isn’t it nice when you actually think about what something means, haha.

So we know that the angel came to Joseph and told him that it was ok. Mary was not in adultery and the baby was from the Holy Spirit. Can you imagine (forget that you know how Jesus was born unto a virgin) trying to understand that your so-to-be-wife is pregnant, but not from natural causes? I can understand why he wanted to divorce.

Then it says in verse 24, “When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife.” So did he actually do that as soon as he woke up? If so, man, that’s some obedience to God.

It really feels go to read the Word. Stay tuned cause Ima really try to make tis a daily habit. I just gotta. Someone jump on me if there’s no post tomorrow (and yes it’s Saturday, so that makes it double hard for me).