1/1/2008 10:51 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Trust in the Lord
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Genesis 40:14-15;23
Message of the verses: “14 "Only keep me in mind when it goes well with you, and please do me a kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh and get me out of this house.
15 "For I was in fact kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing that they should have put me into the dungeon."
23 Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.
I can certainly understand why Joseph would have said something to the cupbearer to help him get out of the prison that he was in, for after all Joseph did not deserve to be in the place that he was in and he would realize that when he told his brothers some time later that they had meant it for harm, yet God had a purpose in all of the things that happened to Joseph, and that purpose was to save a people.
I think that Joseph did the normal thing that most anyone would do when he gave this request to the cupbearer.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Since April of 2003 I too have, at times, put my trust in people to get me out of the undeserved circumstances that I have found myself in, and yet I believe that most of this time I have trusted in the Lord to show me the purpose for this trouble that I find myself in. It will be five years in March that I had taken away from me what is really mine, (although I know that all that I have is the Lord’s), yet God had allowed me to earn these monies and we had relied on them for our retirement, and I suppose that I was relying on them much more than I was relying on the Lord, which could be one of the reasons they were taken away from me.
My Steps of Faith for Today: “Do not trust in princes, In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation. How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, Whose hope is in the LORD his God.” (Psalm 146:3,5
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