Stories from Genesis 21-24

So the reason my blog is titled like this is this post will cover reading from days 8-10 of our reading but I won't be talking about all of it since a lot of it I don't know anything about or its just boring weird stuff (is that blasphemous?) Well today was my first day of exams and I got home at 145 and I'm happy because it gives me a lot more time in the day to do stuff such as blogging and reading but sadly its only Monday-Thursday that I will have this time. A trick we try to pull during exams is that we should be allowed to chew gum because it makes us think better or whatever but there is a study that says its true so right now to blog all of this stuff I am chewing gum from my stocking (thanks Santa) I would also like to say that the free bookmarks from the church are great cause I can keep opening and closing my bible to look at stuff and not try to keep the first 40 ridiculously thin pages open.

The Birth of Issac
God was gracious to Sarah and at the time He promised He gave her a son. Well the time He promised was about a year from the time He visited Abraham and destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. In about 1 or 2 chapters and a days reading we have gone a year. Abraham gave him the name Issac which means "he laughs" and on the 8th day of his life he was circumcised (I mean I know it still hurts but it seems he got a better deal than the grown men in Abraham's household a few chapters back) Then it says Sarah laughs about this wonderful miracle, which I find funny because she laughed at the Lord when He said He would give her a son.

Issac Sacrificed
I think its a little funny that my last subtitle was Issac's birth and now we must talk about him being sacrificed. Since Issac's birth he has been a main point of endearment to Abraham, perhaps to the point of worship. Even though it was God that gave him his son, Issac is something tangible and Abraham needs a little reality check about who to really worship. When God tells Abraham to sacrifice Issac He does put emphasis on the gravity of it "your only son, whom you love" while it must be hard for Abraham you never see a complaint written in the Bible, the next verse tells about the next morning.
Abraham takes two servants and his son and sets out for the place God told him of. It takes three days to get to the mountain (or hill, it says he looked up, whatever) and Abraham tells his servants to wait and says that they will worship and then they will return to them which Abraham at this point believes is a lie. He then places the wood on Issac's back (kind of mean but hey Abraham is like 115 right now) and he himself carries the fire and knife (I guess fire is the tinderbox) and Issac being the bright boy that he is says wait we have fire and wood but what of the sacrifice and his dad tells him that God will provide it (we all trust our dads right) and the two of them went on together.
In verses 6-8 here "and the two of them went on together" is said twice. God wants us to realize that they are together.
When they get to the spot Abraham builds an alter and places bounds his son and places him on it. (Issac has to realize something right, is he not questioning? fighting back? the Bible doesn't say so) Abraham then takes the knife and goes to slay his son but the angel of the Lord stays his hand and tells him to sacrifice a lamb the Lord has provided instead because Abraham did not withhold his only son (his point of worship) from God. By the way, it says the place is the mountain where the Lord will provide so I was right it was a mountain. Anyway after that Abraham's promise/blessing from God is kind of renewed and strengthened and it says he went to his servants and they set off together. Anyone notice the difference? Abraham and Issac do not go on together, whether Issac leaves Abraham out of anger or the bible writer doesn't mention them together again to prove the point that Abraham doesn't have him as a point of worship anymore they are not mentioned together.

While I'm not going to make a subtitle about it, it should be noted that some time after this story Sarah the wife of Abraham dies and she is buried in land that is given to him by the Canaanites.

Issac is found a wife
Last subtitle guys, hope you are still interested, anyway I added that small little section cause it is kind of significant to why Abraham does this, he fears his son will not have a wife (I think they have to be found for you, or maybe you just don't get out much and no internet dating in those days) Either way Abraham realizes he won't be around much longer (remember God decided we shouldn't be 900 anymore) He also makes sure that his sons wife is from his tribe and his land and not from the Canaanites. He makes his servant go and find one. So the servant goes to whatever land Abraham wants him too and goes to the well to wait for girls to come from their houses and draw water (instead of the mall they all go to the well and get us water, good girls) And he does something I do a lot which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. He says if the girl does this and this and this let her be the girl I am to find. So the first girl out is the one that does this and she is Rebekah who is like Issac's cousin I think but whatever. So Rebekah is blessed by her family and taken back to Issac and they have their wedding in his mothers tent.

P.S. If you were planning to tell me I just noticed I spelled Isaac wrong through the whole blog, spell check didn't fix it and I'm 14 so.

P.P.S It is hard to find pictures for some of these blogs, I work hard for you

P.P.P.S Don't ever use the italic setting like I did for my subtitles it stays on until you turn it on and off about 50 times