Future

2/26/2008 8:27 AM

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time                  Focus:  Future

Bible Reading & Meditation             Reference:  Genesis 50:26

            Message of the verse:  “26  So Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years; and he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.”

            Joseph’s work was not done even though he was dead and in his coffin, for as the children of Israel went from being guests in the land to being slaves in the land they could look at the coffin with Joseph in it and remember the promises that God had given to them through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph and not give up hope that God would visit them and bring them out of the land of Egypt and into the promise land as He promised them.

           

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  This portion of Scripture says that my work for the Lord does not have to be done even after I die, (I hope to be ruptured while still alive though).  Dr. Wiersbe quotes the apostle John and also G. Campbell Morgan as he ends his commentary on Genesis:  “He who does the will of God abides forever (1John 2:17”  “Commit your life to God, see vision do the work that’s nearest, the work He appoints, truly and well and faithfully, and die knowing that you have started delicate influences, dynamic forces which will proceed through every succeeding generation until they gather up the harvest of glorious results about the throne of the Eternal  The man of God has not finished his work in the world when they put him in a coffin.”

My Steps of Faith for Today:  Always do right, even when tempted to do wrong, so that if the Lord takes me home through death that my good works will live on especially in my families lives.

Memory verses for the week:  Philippians 1:9-11

9. And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment,
10. so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ;
11. having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.