My 'One Year Bible' Journey

Today I read from the following books;

1 SAMUEL 2:22 - 4:22

JOHN 5:24-47

PSALM 106:1-12

PROVERBS 14:30-31

Today in 1 Samuel it talks about Eli the head priest for Israel. He is the mentor for Samuel who it sounds like is still a boy at this time. Samuel is living with Eli in the temple and studying the word of God.

Eli learns that his sons are wicked men. They have done some terrible things including sleeping with women who served at the tent of meetings. He asked them why they did such things and told them to stop, however they did not listen. They continued to live the life of wickedness. So God sent a man to talk to Eli telling him that soon, if his sons did not stop their wicked ways, the Lord would curse the house of Eli and his fathers house. He says that no man in Eli's family will grow old, they will all die prematurely. He told Eli it was wrong for him to know the acts of his sons yet do nothing about it.

Later Eli went to bed, he was becoming an old man and was loosing his sight. The Lord called out to Samuel, "Samuel...". Samuel got up and ran to Eli (thinking he had called him), "Here I am" he said, but Eli replied, "I did not call you, go to bed". This happened 3 times before Eli realized that God was the one calling Samuel. He told Samuel that if he heard him again so say, "Speak Lord, your servant is listening".

God again talked to Samuel and told him everything that was going to happen the next day. He told him that the evil things he had warned Eli about were going to happen because of Eli's inability to control his boys. He gave instructions to Samuel and then asked him to go to sleep. Eli demanded to know what God had said to Samuel so Samuel told him everything God had said.

It then talks about the Israelites fighting the Philistines. The Philistines beat the Israelites badly killing many men, they also stole the arch of God. When Israel heard that the Arch of God was stolen they were very distressed. When Eli was told it was stolen he fell backwards which broke his neck and died.

In John today it talks about being saved. Simply put it is a speech to the people telling them that they must believe. But if they don't believe in Moses or the things that he wrote, then how could they believe in God. It states in several different ways that the people must believe in Jesus to be saved and have eternal life.