At the point when Joseph came to them in the first part of the day and watched them, observe, they were disheartened. He asked Pharaoh's authorities who were with him in constrainment in his lord's home, "For what reason are your countenances so tragic today?"
Genesis 40:6-7
Do you know the account of Joseph in the book of Genesis? It is an amazing story of God's power and Joseph's trustworthiness and immovable confidence.
Joseph was deceived by his siblings and sold into subjection. As a slave, he was dishonestly blamed for the wrongdoing of endeavored assault. The reality of the situation was his lord's better half felt weak at the knees over Joseph. At the point when he rebuked her advances, she noxiously revealed to her better half that Joseph attempted to assault her. Because of those fraudulent allegations, he went from a captive to a detainee. Could life deteriorate? Through everything, he kept on confiding in God and serve Him, despite the fact that it was HARD to do in that filthy, rotten, disgusting pit known as an Egyptian jail.
At some point, some extraordinary prisoners showed up: Pharaoh's steward and pastry specialist. They had made Pharaoh distraught and had been tossed in the jail for some long "break." One day, Joseph—who had been made the #1 trustee—saw that something wasn't right with these two men. Their countenances were miserable.
The way that he saw their face struck me as I read the story. Here is Joseph—a man who has been cheated, abused, utilized, and mishandled—yet he didn't mope, pout, and flounder in self indulgence and harshness. He confided in God and served others. He didn't zero in on himself, yet he zeroed in on others. He saw that the two new folks were particularly tragic one day. He truly took a gander at individuals and saw them.
Indicting
As I read that, I contemplated all the occasions I get so made up for lost time in my own reality and my own daily agenda that I miss the essences of individuals surrounding me. What number of are battling with blame, torment, misfortune, dread or uncertainty? What number of individuals are tragic and urgently need an embrace, a touch, a word from the Lord to advise them that He knows and cares?
Maybe you resemble me and effectively become involved with your own duties, weights, and individual/family issues, that you overlook you are here to be a gift to other people and "bear each other's weights, and in this manner satisfy the law of Christ" (Galatians 6:2).
Okay request that the Lord make you additional delicate and attentive to the individuals you experience every day? Okay make it your training to investigate faces and see at them the agony they might be persevering? The familiar proverb is without a doubt obvious: individuals couldn't care less the amount you know until they realize the amount you give it a second thought. How about we work on thinking about individuals as we notice them, address them, and energize them in the Lord.
God needs to utilize you and me to be Jesus with skin to a lost and harming world. Will you take the test to be only that?
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