Leah

It used to be soap operas. Now it’s reality TV, sort of like soap operas lived out live before the camera. But sadly, when you meet today’s cast of characters in our Old Testament reading, you’ll realize soap operas and reality TV have nothing on our spiritual ancestors. The Bible is full of stories about love, sex, rejection, envy, jealousy, adultery, immorality, scheming, deceit, greed, thievery, contention, and even murder (and that’s the short list)! Why did God lay out humanity’s dirty laundry here and in other passages of Scripture?