SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 01-22-2008
My Worship Time Focus:
Confession: brotherly concern displayed: Submission
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Genesis 44:14-17
Message of the verses: “14 When Judah and his brothers came to
Joseph’s house, he was still there, and they fell to the ground before
him. 15 Joseph said to them, "What
is this deed that you have done? Do you not know that such a man as I can
indeed practice divination?" 16 So Judah said,
"What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? And how can we justify
ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants; behold, we are my
lord’s slaves, both we and the one in whose possession the cup has been
found." 17 But he said, "Far
be it from me to do this. The man in whose possession the cup has been found,
he shall be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.’”
It can be
seen from this section and also from the section that proceeded this one, while
the brothers were about to leave their father, that Judah advances as a leader of this
group of brothers. Judah has not distinguished
himself very well in the former chapters of this book, for it was his idea to
sell Joseph and then he had the affair with his son’s wife, but this was in the
past and now it seems like he is being changed and later on while Jacob is on
his death bed he too recognizes this too.
Judah had no
excuses or answers for what had happened as far as how the money and the cup
were where they were. Judah
then makes the statement that God has found out the iniquity of your servants
and thus he then says that all of them will be Joseph’s slaves, but Joseph has
another idea about this for he will now test the brothers by stating that only
Benjamin need be his slave, thus seeing how these brothers will react to this.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I can take away from this section that people
do change, as was the case of Judah,
and so this helps me to realize that I can change and also people around me too
can change. The change that I am speaking
about is changing for the good, being more conformed to the image of Jesus
Christ.
My Steps of Faith for
Today: I want to be willing to
change old bad habits and stop them whenever the Holy Spirit prompts me to do
so.
Memory verses for the week:
Philippians 1:9-11
- And
this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real
knowledge and all discernment,
- so
that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere
and blameless until the day of Christ;
- having
been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus
Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
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