Day 105 A Life in Christ

 

4/15/2026

 "A page of history is worth a volume of logic."

Daily Walk

 

The excitement of the morning for me was beginning to read 1 Chronicles 1-9 of the lineage of the David going back to Adam. Usually people groan when they get to the "begats," because they seem impossibly long, confusing, and boring. But they shouldn't be, if we consider that we may find our names listed inconspicuously within the names in history. As a challenge, the overview suggests the reader search for names we recognize, characters from the Old Testament writings that we remember the story, who we may consider the top five most important people, and why God felt it important that all these names be included in scripture. Seems like a pretty good game. 

I have always loved studying the lineage of Christ which dates all the back to the beginning also, as Mary's, the mother of Jesus, lineage went all the way back to Adam. The lineage of Jesus has even traced back through Joseph, his earthly father. In fact every human traces back to the beginning. Had Adam and Eve stayed on the up and up and obeyed God, we would be living in a perfect world, fruit trees and vegetables and all needs met, walking in the garden with God, and all of creation would be working in sync and not at a chaotic fury with one natural disaster after another. Think about that! 

As I read through scripture, and relive the lives of kings and kingdoms, I see the same return to the same sins, and even to this day man continues on the same spiral pathway downward leading to death and destruction. God provided for David a wonderful kingdom, and He promised that as long as his generations served Him and obeyed His commandments, one of David's family members would be seated on the throne. God called David the apple of His eye, and yet David failed God. He also repented quickly when he recognized his sin, and often it cost others, because the consequences of disobedience always affect others, even those who are innocent. 

I find it very interesting that David had many wives and concubines. Why did God allow that after He had said it was sinful? Then Solomon's first marriage, whom God entrusted with great wisdom, was to Pharaoh's daughter. Solomon had thousands of wives and concubines. He also purchased horses from Egypt, and clearly God said never to have any dealings with Egypt and not to buy horses from them. But it was Solomon's son, Rehoboam who caused the kingdom to be divided, ripped from David, with the exception of the tribe of Judah, because he was an evil king who did not follow in his father's footsteps when it came to obedience to God. There's so much I don't understand, but I see the same sins committed over and over again. But it doesn't hold a candle to the degradation that exists in our world today. We have fallen so far down that I wonder if we can be pulled back from the mire and stagnation of this age. And yet God in His great mercy is willing to pardon and save, because we all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. When God loves at us, we who have surrendered our wills to our Father, He only sees the righteous of Jesus Christ, the blood that ransomed our souls. We were all made in the image of God, but there is only one way to God and that is through the blood of Jesus.

Why must we make it so hard!