July 11 – Genesis 42:26-38
July 11 – Genesis 42:26-38
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Heavenly Father, we do experience
much grief and loss in our lives. I know
the loss of my dad has been very difficult, and what gives me joy in that grief
is knowing my Dad is with You. I can’t
imagine the grief that some feel when they don’t have that assurance. Sometimes we struggle to feel joy through our
trials and the book of James tells us to count it all joy, but joy can
sometimes be elusive. Help me to
remember I don’t have to be joyful over the trial, but in knowing You can take
that trial and bring great things from it, like Joseph being sold into slavery
and spending years in prison was certainly not something to find joy in. But when we see what You did through that
trial, we can find joy knowing our wonderful God can take something so hard and
bring something wonderful from it. Thank
You, Father, for being a God who loves us and wants to do wonderful things for
us.
In Jesus’ name.
Amen!
Why do you think the brothers were
frightened when they each found their bundle of money in their sacks?
Reuben was anxious to follow the
orders given by Joseph. What did he
suggest as an offering to his father to allow Benjamin to go with him to
Egypt?
What does this show you about
Rueben?
How did Jacob respond to the
request?
Sometimes the loss of a loved one,
friend, home or job can leave us in such sorrow that we may feel frozen and
unable to carry on.
God is not a stranger to loss and
death. He sent his only Son to die and
bear our sins.
Pray today that if you are gripped
by grief of someone or something that God will heal your heart and you can once
again experience joy.
Genesis 42:26-38
26 Then
they loaded their donkeys with their grain and departed. 27 And
as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at the
lodging place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack. 28 He
said to his brothers, “My money has been put back; here it is in the mouth of
my sack!” At this their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one
another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”
29 When
they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan, they told him all that
had happened to them, saying, 30 “The man, the lord
of the land, spoke roughly to us and took us to be spies of the
land. 31 But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we
have never been spies. 32 We are twelve brothers,
sons of our father. One is no more, and the youngest is this day with our
father in the land of Canaan.’ 33 Then the man, the
lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I shall know that you are honest
men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of
your households, and go your way. 34 Bring your
youngest brother to me. Then I shall know that you are not spies but honest
men, and I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the
land.’”
35 As
they emptied their sacks, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack.
And when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were
afraid. 36 And Jacob their father said to them, “You
have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more,
and now you would take Benjamin. All this has come against me.” 37 Then
Reuben said to his father, “Kill my two sons if I do not bring him back to
you. Put him in my hands, and I will bring him back to you.” 38 But
he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and
he is the only one left. If harm should happen to him on the journey that
you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”
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