ASLC Devotions

Tuesday, March 29

 

1 Corinthians 10:1-4

 

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

 

 

Ancestors and family history - I am so curious about it all. I wish I would have taken the time years ago to ask more questions and to listen better to the stories that were told. My Great Granddad, who I knew well as a young girl, wrote over 10 books of our family history in great detail. The stories and documents that he recorded are truly amazing. There are stories of happiness and joy and also stories of heartache and shame. Great Granddad wanted us to know and I believe also, to feel what the lives of our ancestors were like.

 

Paul’s letter to the Corinthians is asking them to not forget about those who have gone before us. They like we, have experienced times of ‘clouds’ hanging over us. Times when we too have stumbled along our way in trying to do what is right. And we, like our ancestors are filled with the spiritual rock of Jesus Christ, who in our times of struggles and shame, lifts us up to start anew.

 

Ann Lynch