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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 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.

Saturday, February 11, 2023

Today's Passage : Today's Passage :Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife [1]

Bible Verse:Genesis 39:6-10 (ESV)

"Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance. And after a time his master’s wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, “Lie with me.” But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge. He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?” And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her."

Message: Poor Joseph can’t catch a break! He seems to have walked in upon an episode from The Young and the Restless. After having been attacked by his brothers and sold to passing slave traders, he has finally managed to get back on his feet and has his life going along great, when out of the blue, his employer’s wife starts pressuring him to commit adultery with her. She acts like the stereotypical spoiled rich wife who casts her eye on the pool boy, or Lady Chatterley with her husband’s gamekeeper. But Joseph is honorable. He does not want to repay Potiphar’s kindness to him by betraying him, nor does he want to do something wrong in the eyes of God. A woman like this can cause trouble. It seems this cannot turn out well for him, and again, through no fault of his own. We all hit these moments in our own lives. Without trying, we get stuck in a hard place, and the easy way out is immoral or even illegal. How we respond determines our character and how our entire lives will proceed. Once we develop the mindset of seeking first the kingdom of God, the decision is easy enough even if the consequences are painful. But people who are willing, like Joseph, to take their lumps when they are put in an impossible dilemma — even through no fault of their own — seem to do better in the long run. For, as Walter Scott put it, “What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”