This post is part of my ongoing series of writing down my thoughts on the Bible passages I read each day. Some days I hope to have great insight that the Lord gives me, and many days, I will likely struggle through the text and not know what to write down based on what I read. My hope and prayer is that as I make this a habit, just as I did daily writing for so long, that I will improve on my ability to read and understand the passages I’m reading. Please keep in mind that many of these posts may be published late at night or with little time studying and simply be my first thoughts after reading. This is in no way a commentary that one should use to discern the Bible, but my own personal thoughts.
These genealogies are tough to get through. And I would be lying if I said I don’t sometimes skip past a couple lines of names as I read through it.
However, I will say that they quite fascinate me once you get to people you start to recognize. All of this genealogy business seems totally pointless until you see how it tells the story of how Saul, the kind of Israel came to be. Whose line did he come through? If you look at the Bible as a textbook, maybe you’re right. Maybe it is a waste, but when you see the Bible as a history book, it totally makes sense. It’s giving you a history of what has happened throughout all of history.
It’s easy to skip over this part of the Bible, and I honestly don’t think that it probably makes that much of a difference on either your relationship with God or your ability to witness, but I do think that you’re missing out on being able to see how God brings everything together through the most unlikely of circumstances and people. The history is fascinating to say the least.