My sister came to visit me last weekend and it was
delightful. We are really close and I
just love hanging out with her. The key
to our successful sisterly bond is that we do not share a husband. Thankfully!
Because I would so be the Leah in that triangle; Jamie is waaaaay cuter
and more fun than I. Not to mention
several years younger. I wouldn’t stand
a chance! Poor Leah. Poor Rachel.
In these two chapters, the word that most sticks out
to me is in chapter 30, verse 22: “Then
God remembered Rachel….” I don’t much care for it, to tell you the
truth. Doesn’t that imply that for a
while God forgot about Rachel? And isn’t being cast aside and forgotten one
of our biggest fears as Christians? It
is for me. I’m really banking on God’s
promise to hear my every prayer and never leave my pitiful side. Plus, God is God; He can’t forget!
When I checked other versions, almost all use that scratchy
word. (NET uses, “took note” but that isn’t much better.) So, I Googled it up. An article at http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Manasseh.html
was supremely helpful in breaking down
the Hebrew word nasha (to forget). My
favorite blurb from the article was this: “The antonym of forgetting is
remembering, and since God can not forget the way we do, He also doesn't
remember the way we do. When God remembers someone, He pulls that someone close
(Genesis 30:22).”
The other websites I checked concur. God remembers us! He pulls us close and answers our prayers and
I knew it all along. Sometimes I just
like scholars to tell me a word means something more in a language I don’t
know. But now that I know? I definitely will not forget it.
3 comments:
You two get along so well, I think you could share a husband! And, you should put up a picture to show that you are BOTH beautiful, though you look nothing alike!
Julie IS so beautiful! Not to mention a smart and talented writer/blogger. Her efforts of living in His Word every day inspires me to do the same. Proud sis ;)
You guys are very kind! :) I WILL put a pic up and we'll take a vote (NOT!!!)
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