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Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for collecting daily manna), make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Today's Passage : Today's Passage: Subject:Joseph’s Dreams Bible Verse:Genesis 37:2-11 (ESV) "Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him. N ow Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more. He said to them, “Hear this dream that I have dreamed: Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.” His brothers said to him, “Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words. Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, “Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?” And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind. " Message:
You could not accuse Joseph of being overly discrete, could you? First, he rats out his brothers to his parents. Then he has a dream where his sheaf stands up straight in the middle of a field and all his brothers’ sheaves gather around it and bow down, and he goes straight to his brothers and tells them about it. Then he dreams about the sun and moon and exactly 11 stars bowing down to him, and this time he tells not only his brothers, but also his parents.
Luckily, his father Israel (Jacob) doesn’t take the kind of offense at a dream where he’s bowing down to his young son that the brothers do. His young son is his favorite, but giving him a special coat “of many colors” just adds fuel to the fire. Joseph, who seems even for a teenager unusually blind to diplomacy or the realities of human nature, drives eleven brothers (who are older and presumably stronger in the first place) to despise him.
Meditation : Prayer : May I go in peace, with God and with his other children, and may we love one another as Christ taught us. May I follow the example of good men of old, and may God comfort and help me and all who believe in Him, both in this world and in the world which is to come,. Amen |
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