Friday, September 26 || AMAZING FAITH OF JOSEPH!

Honey Drops for Every Soul
Sep 26
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Read : Genesis: 15: 12-16 & 50: 24-26

“By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions concerning the burial of his bones.” - Hebrews 11:22

Joseph was seventeen years old when he was taken to Egypt, (Genesis 37:2) and he lived there for ninety three years. He died at the age of a hundred and ten. (Genesis 50:26) During all those years Joseph underwent periods of abandonment, loneliness, injustice and rejection. He had more reasons to forsake his faith than to be strengthened in his faith. While he was living in Egypt, he was surrounded by people who had belief in a false religion and worshipped false gods. He did not have any mentor in Egypt to encourage him and to lead him in the way of faith. People whom he helped forgot about him in the hour of need. “If that is what a life of faith is about, then I have every reason to reject it and discard it,” Joseph could have argued easily. But Joseph’s faith was not such a shallow one. When he was at the fag end of his life, this is what he said to his brothers - “I am about to die. But God will SURELY come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. ... Then you must carry my bones up from this place.’’ And his wish was indeed fulfilled.

Dear friends, do we have such a deep-rooted faith?  True faith is grounded on the infallible Word of God and is not based on our emotions or on the circumstances.  If God had said something, a man of faith believes that it will happen, however negative the situations would be.  “Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” (Hebrews 11:1)

PRAYER: Dear Lord, even though Joseph lived in an atmosphere which seemed to shake his faith and damage it, he rooted his faith firmly on Your promise given to Abraham around 430 years earlier, and instructed by faith that his bones be taken away from Egypt to the Promised land. Give me such a faith. Amen.

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