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Today is Monday January 04, 2010 and we are reading through the Bible in a year. Today's message comes from the reading of the book of Genesis chapters 10-12. If you would like to read the chapters along with us you can Click Here to read them or copy & paste this URL onto your browser: http://www.readytofollow.com/bible-january-4

You would think that since there were only eight people left on the earth that all of them would have followed God right? Well, they might have all started out that way, but the truth is that one of them slowly began to put himself first rather than God. All it takes is just one day without reading the Bible or one day without praying for someone to turn from a faithful servant of God to a self servant. This is what started the division between Noah's children and their future descendants. Noah's three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, drew the line between what would be known as the Jews and the Gentiles. Before Noah died he vowed a curse on the descendants of Canaan, Ham's his youngest son, because of his behavior toward his time of weakness. “And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.” - Genesis 9:25-27. This is the future of all generations, the descendants of Shem are none other than the Jews, whom for a great while were the only professing people God had in the world. It is through the generations of Shem that Jesus would descend from. The descendants of Japheth would become the isles of the Gentiles, known as those whom would be converted into the professing faith of God. Now, Ham's descendants, more importantly, his son Canaan's descendants would be in constant battle with the Jews. As long as we have this flesh we have a sin nature in us (until Jesus returns) therefore, people will fall, regardless of how faithful they were to God in the past, unless they stay grounded in the Word of God. How do people fall? Want. We have to admit that we want everything the way we want it and we want it right now. The second we do not get it we start thinking of ways in which we can get it, right now. Much of the time, this want takes us away from God and before you know it, He is out of the picture completely.

Did you ever wonder why there are so many languages in the world? Well, at one time all the earth spoke one language. However, as the children of God mixed with the children of man it began to create compromise and false doctrine. Once God saw that His people were getting corrupted by the worldly people He decided to create different languages to keep them from understanding what they were saying. “And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.” - Genesis 11:1-9. This is the exact reason why people who live in the world or even so called men of God do not understand the Bible. God will not allow anyone to understand Him as long as they are teaching lies about Him. Sadly though, it is these people that the world and even many Christian's always follow.

You know, before the Bible, these people did not have a book to guide them and teach them about God. Instead they had to rely totally on their faith, not knowing what the future might hold. Of course they made mistakes, but it was through those mistakes that they learned to trust only Go. That is why they were recorded in the Bible, they were ordinary people, some whom have gotten into some serious trouble, used by God to do wonderful things for Him. More than four hundred years had passed since the last recorded communication from heaven. Because of the sinful tendency of mankind, God spoke to Abraham (a descent of Shem) and asked him to surrender everything he had. By faith, Abraham took his wife, leaving his family and life to follow God's will. “Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.” - Genesis 12:1-5. Abram responded to God's call and gave up all that was precious to him. He gave up his country, home, and friends and by faith obeyed God, committing himself to an unknown future. He could not have known that the journey would be more than a thousand miles to the promised land. Many have started out in the right direction with the people of God, but when confronted with worldly opportunities, they decide on self-interest and eventually find themselves caught up in worldly affairs. The only way to have a right relationship with God and receive the desires of the heart is by trusting and obeying Him, of course if we do not know Jesus we do not know God.

Enjoy the rest of your day/night and God Bless You, I am praying for you,
Christina

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