Coffee With The Lord

A devotional reflection from my Bible reading today using the “Necessary Food” Bible reading plan: 1 Chronicles 1:1-54; Proverbs 23:10-18; Jonah 4:1-11; John 20:24-29; Hebrews 11:23-31

This is a personal “repost” but I remember the event like it happened again TODAY!

I just finished reading two chapters in from 1 Chronicles (chapters 1-2)! Some would say with a bit of emphasis… “BORING!!” (In fact, it is a part of the Bible where many people “stall out” a discontinue their Bible reading!)

That was my complaint to God one morning a number of years ago after my time of “Coffee with the Lord.” I had just struggled through several chapters that we call “genealogies”! I remember it vividly… As I finished my Bible reading that morning I expressed my complaint to God that I thought He had wasted a lot of valuable space in the Bible and had devoted it to this boring stuff! (There was a lot of more interesting and helpful things He could have devoted to Biblical content!)

I had some pastoral calls later that morning to make in a city nearby, so I got in the car, reached over and turned on the car radio (still grumbling about those stupid “genealogies”… “Boring, I tell you!!”) The radio happened to be tuned into a Christian radio station… And “as God is my witness” these were the first words out of the mouth of the person who was speaking on radio program… “I used to complain to God about why He ever put the genealogies in the Bible… And one day He spoke these words clearly to my heart, ‘Son, if I cared enough about those people, to include them in my eternal plan, I care about you! You are also an important part of my eternal plan!”

Well, let me put it this way… I’VE NEVER COMPLAINED AGAIN THAT THE “GENEALOGIES” WERE IN THE BIBLE… (In fact, I’ll usually slow down a bit when I’m reading them and try to pronounce every single name!