Month: December 2018

Covenant

 A covenant is a promise God makes with his people, it is like a deal or contract. One of the covenants that God made with his people was with Abraham, Abraham was promised to be a great nation, and now he is. One other one was when God said to Noah that he will never flood the earth again. There are two types of covenants conditional and unconditional, conditional is where both sides have to keep the bargain but an unconditional is where the more powerful side has to keep its side. One visual aid that I chose is a wedding ring, a wedding ring is an example of a conditional covenant.

Slide of destruction

Israel had one good king but they did not listen to that king, instead, they went to bail, bail was one of the Phoenicians gods. After the Israelites went over to bail they got attacked by the Assyrians and the Assyrians scattered them. In Israel, the kings worshiped on power and they did almost anything to get it. We need to follow the prophets in our lives so that we do not end up like the Israelites who did not follow God. when I think of this I think of a little kid sitting at the top of a slide, the kid can just climb down the steps to the bottom just like we can just follow God. the kid can also go down the slide just like we can go down the slide of mistakes that will lead us further from God.

 

Call

God called Abraham to follow him to another land and Abraham did, dragging his feet. God also called Isaac and Jacob and they also followed with their dragging their feet. Still, to this day God calls us to follow him but we just drag our feet like Abraham Isaac and Jacob. Sometimes you need to stop and ask yourself does my life look like I am someone who is listening, and will follow what God says. My visual for this is a map, I choose a map because God called people all over the map. I feel like God is calling me but I don’t know what he is calling me to do yet.