What would you say is your calling?<\/p>\n
Well, when I started reading the Bible it was difficult for me to understand, because the Bible was not written in the everyday English language. In addition to that, I was an Ebonics speaker. I spoke within the context of my dialect in Mississippi. So the Bible was not that easy for me to read.<\/p>\n
It didn\u2019t have relevant meaning to me in Genesis. \u201cIn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, darkness\u2026\u201d I bet you I read over that without really understanding what it was. But as I began to read through the Bible, I came to Abraham\u2019s calling; it was the twelfth chapter of Genesis. To me, that\u2019s where Genesis began: the call of Abraham.God had said to Abraham, \u201cGet thee out from among your family and from your father\u2019s house, and I will make you, I will bless you. I will bless them that bless you and curse them that curse you. And through you all the families of the earth will be blessed.\u201d It seemed like, what he was saying to Abraham, I heard it like he was talking to me. That\u2019s when I really thought I was being called of God.<\/p>\n
I heard that to say \u201cI\u2019m going to redeem your name.\u201d Or better yet, I felt my name was so messed up, my heritage, my people and that I was such a sinner. That brought a conviction in my life. And I said to God, \u201cGod, would you redeem my name?\u201d<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n John Perkins On The Day He Finally Understood The Bible https:\/\/t.co\/nRy7NbIbTa<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Peter Palumbo (@PeterPalumbo1) May 24, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n