Bible Overview and Media Fast

Wow, this week has been incredible.

We studied under Tom, the Base director here and the knowledge that he possesses with such humility has been such a blessing to all of us.

I already had a great love for the scripture, thanks to many different things such as Quizzing and growing up in a household where the Bible was central, but WHOA- having an understanding of the central themes and connections all throughout the Bible is just mind-blowing. I have never been more in awe of God and His never-ending faithfulness and love for all people.  

One of the many cool things that I learned this week was about the genealogies in the Bible.  They seem endlessly long and slightly meaningless to us, but understanding from the context of the writers and who would've been reading it- wow.  Names and their meanings were very important in Jewish culture, we see over and over again in Scripture where names are given either as a description of that person, a promise, or other meanings.  Anyways, here is just one example:

In Genesis 5, we read the first genealogy of the Bible. 

The names are listed below with the meaning

·          

Adam	Man
Seth	Appointed
Enosh	Mortal
Kenan	Sorrow
Mahalalel	The Blessed God
Jared	Shall come down
Enoch	Teaching
Methuselah	His death shall bring (He died right before the flood came)
Lamech	The despairing
Noah	Rest and comfort

          
         Now, we read it as a bunch of names. However, a Jew would've read this as: "Man appointed mortal. Sorrow the Blessed God shall come down teaching. His death shall bring the despairing rest and comfort"

The punctuation is obviously not in the geneaology so that was added, but the meaning is still basically the same.  This is just one of the cool things I have learned this week.

I am still learning a lot about surrendering completely to Him and allowing Him to be LORD over al my life.  It is so hard to truly give all of my heart, and ALL that I am and to trust Him with everything. Each day, I surrender again, because each night, I realize that I once again was taking control. It is so stupid that it is so hard for me to surrender, because time and time again, He has proved himself faithful. 

This upcoming week is Worldview week. We will be having a media fast, which means that we will be handing over our computers and phones and ipods for the week. I am excited for this, because I know that only good things can come of giving up our technological distractions.  I will be sad to be disconnected from the world and all my wonderful people back at home, but I do agree that in a setting like this DTS, it will be so good for our school body.  Hopefully we can spend some good quality time together! I know I would really love that :) So if you'd like to communicate with me this week sometime, I guess it'll have to be through snail-mail, which I love... so please do! 

Yesterday, we went to Hana- hiked up to a waterfall, and jumped off of a cliff called bunny ears. I'm not going to lie, my fear of heights totally made me "that girl" and it took me a while to take the leap. But I did take it, and I don't regret it at all!

Anyways, I should go... love you all! 

ps. here's my mailing address, should you decide to love me in this way (please do!)

Send letters to:

YWAM Maui c/o Ehjae Chan

P.O Box 790237

Paia, HI 96779 

USA

Send Packages to:

1920 Haiku Rd.

Haiku, HI 96708 USA 

Love and Blessings,

Ehjae