Themes of the Old Testament
Theme Names:
Names are important in the Bible because they give an idea of what the person is like. Names help others know what some of your characteristics are and your personality. For example the name Elohim means creator God and the name Yahweh means relationship God. God was the one who gave the people their names. For example the name Jesus means “deliverer” and he delivered us from our sins. The name Paul means humble. Which God changed Him and he was humble. God gives and changes names as he sees fit. The name Jaylyn means “beautiful jay bird” and the name Jay means “to rejoice.” I did a baby for my example because every baby has a name. Some pick names for the meaning and some pick it because a family member has that name.
Theme Call:
God called Abraham, Issac, and Jacob to follow His call to travel to a different land and the promise that his nation will become great. We need to read the Bible and trust, obey, and listen to His voice. We need to listen to the people that God has put in our life to help us. God still calls us today. I can relate that to my life in the fact that we recently got a new Pastor. We gave a call to him and he accepted. I definitely saw God through this because we were looking for a Pastor for 3 ish years before we found Rev. Macedo. He is also the example that I had.
Theme Sinai Law:
Moses wrote the 10 commandments on 2 tablets of stone. God gave us laws to protect us and to keep us safe not harm us. God said “I will be your God but part of that is you having to obey my law.” We need to strive to obey the law of God. We are not perfect so we are not going to follow them perfectly, but we need to try to at least. We can not let phones, money, sports, friends, food, social media, popularity, video games, and more get in the way of us trying to follow God. The 1st commandment even says “You shall have no other gods but me” We may not worship anything but God. Even if other things take away time from God, those are idols. God should be our #1 priority, not trying to be the most popular. Focusing on God and not trying to get into the “cool kid” group. (I need to work on this one)The picture that I had was an adult driving. The rules are that you can drive AFTER you are 16. That rule is set in place to keep us safe. Just like the 10 commandments are doing.
Theme Symbol of a Lamp:
God made a promise to David in a covenant that his lamp will never go out. God loved David and he was a man after God’s own heart. Even though he made many mistakes God still loved him. David’s line eventually came to Jesus, and Jesus was the ultimate light that will never ever go out. Jesus is the light of the world. When I am in a hard situation or something bad has happened I see God working through that. I see the light at the end of the tunnel. Out of something bad comes something good. In the tunnel it is dark but at the end is something good….Jesus. An example is when it is cloudy. We can’t always see the sun but it is always shining somewhere. Just like if we are going through something tough. We don’t always see Jesus but we know he is always there.
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