Confrontation: False Confidence Destroyed: Overwhelmed (Gen. 44:13)

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 01-21-2008

 

My Worship Time      Focus:  Confrontation:  false confidence destroyed:  Overwhelmed

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                     Reference:  Genesis 44:13

 

            Message of the verses:  “13.  Then they tore their clothes, and when each man loaded his donkey, they returned to the city.”

 

            It looks like the sins that the brothers committed have finally come home to them as demonstrated by their tearing their clothes, which was done only when someone had died or some other terrible thing that would befall them.

 

            The beginning of their journey was very good as stated in a previous SD, but now the trip has turned into disaster for them and they must have had many thought as they began to make their way back to face Joseph.  Could Benjamin have actually stolen this cup?  How did the money get back into their sacks?  Would this be enough to kill their father?  Did all of this happen because of what we did to Joseph those many years ago?  How about Judah who had told his father that he would be surety for Benjamin?  Judah was no doubt going over the things that he would say to this ruler when he would face him, for after reading what it was that Judah said to him it is clear that he had to be thinking about all of this, and he must have been praying about this too. 

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  There are many times in my life, too many, that I too have to face sins that I have committed against God and these sins too often do not lead me to the point of tearing my clothes, although this is not a practice done by believers in the 21^st century, but having the same grief and despair over any sin is something that I do lack.  My personality seems to be that I do not get emotional over things but believe that everything is going to be all right.  I believe that God used this personality type when He brought me to the point of confessing Christ as my Savior and Lord.  I would pray that God would give me the proper emotion whenever I sin which is genuine and not something that is worked up in a frenzy. 

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:  To begin to memorize some verses in Philippians so that I can begin to meditate on them.

 

Memory verses for the week:  Philippians 1:9-11 (NASB95) 

 

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.