My 'One Year Bible' Journey

Today I read from the following books;

1 SAMUEL 10:1 - 11:15
JOHN 6:43-71
PSALM 107:1-43
PROVERBS 15:1-3

Today in first Samuel it starts out with Samuel anointing Saul as King over Israel. God through Samuel tells Saul the next series of events that will happen and what he should do. Everything that Samuel told him came true. Almost immediately Saul was informed that they were about to be attacked by the Ammonites. He was filled with anger when he heard this. He slaughtered 2 bulls and cut them into pieces, he sent them away with a note stating that would happen to anyone who tried to fight Israel (they would be slaughtered like the bulls). Saul then led the group to fight the Ammonites for Israels freedom. It states that God granted him strength and he gathered 300,000 Israel soldiers and slaughtered the Ammonites through the night and into the day. In less than 24 hours they had killed almost all of them.

In John today it talks about Jesus giving a speech in the temple to many people. At this time he had many prophets. He began telling everyone that in order to have eternal life they must eat from his flesh and drink from his blood.

- I will admit, while I was reading this it must have been extremely hard for people to understand what he was really talking about and understand it, which is why the people reacted the way that they did -

The people were in shock, they thought he truly meant for them to eat Jesus in a cannibalistic way. They asked several questions but the people did not see past the literal translation of what he was saying.

- Obviously today when we take communion we read the passage that states, "this is my body, this is my blood." but we obviously know that the wafer we are putting in our mouths and the grape juice we drink is symbolizing something else, its not literally flesh and blood. However I can understand without the common knowledge tradition of taking communion the statement of This is my body could and was literally translated into eating Jesus....creepy -

It states that many people left him and even many of his prophets left him, leaving only his 12 with him. (that's how the 12 came about, they were the only ones left) He asked them if they truly believed in him and they agreed. Although they admitted that what he was saying was hard to grasp, they still believed and trusted in him. Even at that point Jesus stated that one of them will betray him (Judas).

The Proverbs for today is; PROVERBS 15:1-3 "A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of the fool gushes folly. The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good."

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