Annual Bible Reading 2017: Genesis 48-50

12^th January Morning
Genesis 48-49

Last words of dying people matter more than any other words they have ever said while living. Jacob did what a friend told Grisham after he was told he was terminally ill: “What do you do when you realize you are about to die?” The friend replied, “It’s real simple. You get things right with God, and you spend as much time with those you love as you can. Then you settle with everybody else.”. He fixed his family and prepared all of them. He complimented all those who deserved compliments, warned those who needed to be warned, encouraged those family members who needed it and adopted all his grandchildren.

He literally did to his family all he had neglected to do in life. Some people are too resourceful in their dying moments. Perhaps it is due to the fact that they are obsessed with the legacy they intend to leave behind in life. Well, Jacob did all he did but he forgot one important thing: HE NEVER TOLD THEM TO LEAVE EGYPT. However much we prepare our children and train them, if we don’t tell them to leave their abusive Egypt, they will work and the

However much we prepare our children and train them, if we don’t tell them to leave their abusive Egypt, they will work and the Egyptians will eat-up all they have toiled for. Our children must leave their addictions before we assume any success for them. The last words could have made too much sense if they had gone back to Canaan. It could have made sense if they were in a different geography. Miracles in a sinful world are just but pan killers. This story reminds me the power in

This story reminds me of the power in the resurrection. We were not saved from sin and death alone, but we must also be saved from our environment. This sinful world must be wiped away and a new world is created for us. It does not matter whether you thrive in Egypt, it is still Egypt and in Egypt, everything finally decays and if it doesn’t, Egyptians in form disease, death, demons, enemies etc. take it.

12^th January Morning
Genesis 50

Focus on these verses 14-21: And after he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who went up with him to bury his father. When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “Perhaps Joseph will hate us, and may actually repay us for all the evil which we did to him.” So they sent messengers to Joseph, saying, “Before your father died he commanded, saying, Thus you shall say to Joseph: “I beg you, please forgive the trespass of your brothers and their sin; for they did evil to you.”‘ Now, please, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him. Then his brothers also went and fell down before his face, and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.” Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God?  “But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive. “Now, therefore, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones.” And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.

None of us know what the death of one important person can do in our lives. When important people die in our families we tend to go into moments of reflections and start moving towards the right direction. The elder brothers of Joseph all along were still suspicious of their younger but politically powerful brother. They still thought he would revenge and Joseph made it clear to them that he had left those matters to God. the loss of a loved one might bring you closer to each other or actually set you apart forever.

However, the death of Jacob brought the brothers together. It must be emphasized that it is due to the choice that Joseph made. He chose not to revenge but to let go. It is always a choice we make.

Joseph, unlike his father, hinted on the point that these people had to leave and if they could not do it by themselves then they had to be fetched by God himself. He still cared about his brothers even in the time of his death. In the times of his retirement, abuse had already begun on these foreigners but still the brothers were not running away. It is interesting to see people walk themselves into a situation and they have to be carried out of it. That is how some choices in life are. Easy to make hard to leave or get out of them. LORD HAVE MERCY.

SEE YOU IN EXODUS.

God bless you. I invoke TRUTH, KNOWLEDGE, and FAITH.

Am Pr. I.T.White. THE GOSPEL HAWKER

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