Well, here's a puzzle this morning: Who wrote the book of Ezra? I realized as I was reading the chapter this morning that the author is now speaking in the first person rather than the third. I have always assumed it was Ezra who wrote it, but if he wrote it, the transition from third to first person is kind of confusing to me. I know that if this were being discussed in the Bible Study on Wednesday mornings, we'd have a great time trying to figure it out. But, in the end, does it really matter? It is a great story - history well worth reading.
As I read the first section of the chapter with the list of fathers and their children who left captivity together, I wondered how many Christian parents today desired that their children would be able to live without bondage to the false gods of this world and live freely in Christ.
May God help all whom we love to understand, to see, that Christ freed them from sin, death, and the power of the devil, to live life in him and to live it abundantly.
"Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage." Gal 5:1 NIV
As I read the first section of the chapter with the list of fathers and their children who left captivity together, I wondered how many Christian parents today desired that their children would be able to live without bondage to the false gods of this world and live freely in Christ.
May God help all whom we love to understand, to see, that Christ freed them from sin, death, and the power of the devil, to live life in him and to live it abundantly.
"Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage." Gal 5:1 NIV
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