Day One - Already Behind

So I received The One Year Chronological Bible NLT for christmas, and my husband and I are using it as a starting off point to read the entire Bible this year.  We got back from a trip yesterday and forgot our plan to start reading so today we read 2 entries. My plan for my blog is to give a quick thought on each of the readings.  Anyone want to read with us?

January 1 Reading Genesis 1:1-3:24
Genesis 3:16
   Then he said to the woman,

   “I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy,
      and in pain you will give birth.
   And you will desire to control your husband,
      but he will rule over you.”

I found the second part of this passage to be interesting because so many women have a difficult time submitting to their husband (myself included sometimes) and God straight up says it is because of our sin nature.  How interesting, but how it makes so much sense as well.  The devil does not want us to have successful relationships and therefore thrives on this kind of struggle within a marriage.

January 2 Reading Genesis 4:1-6:22 & 1 Chronicles 1:1-4

Genesis 6:3

³ Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not put up with^[a] humans for such a long time, for they are only mortal flesh. In the future, their normal lifespan will be no more than 120 years.”

So we finished this reading and I said to P "what did you find most interesting from this section?" His reply was "God won't let people live to more than 120 years". Somehow I missed this so I had him point it out to me and indeed he was correct.  Taking advantage of the digital age we live in I googled it and thought I had discovered that this was in fact the case.  When I sat down to write this I double checked and my first assumption of 115 years 252 days was the oldest known person was only for the US, bummer! Turns out there are 2 people who lived over 120 years! Knowing the God does not lie I set out to find out what this passage meant.  Turns out 120 years is a reference to the time period between verse 3 and Genesis 7:6 when the flood began (Thank you Bible Track for this info)

Tomorrow we read about the flood.  P is nudging me that it is time for bed now.