SCHOOLTIME
Matthew 25:14-30
This is schooltime. We’re in training. There’s a new order of things coming to the earth some day. God carries an ideal in his heart. Some day he will carry it out on this old earth. In that ideal time coming he will need men and women whom he has trained, and whose experience and judgment he can trust. Let’s be good scholars in school, patient, steady, quick to learn, with unfailing trust in the Teacher.
GOD’S CLOCK
Genesis 41:25-32
There’s a simplicity about God in working out his plans, yet a resourcefulness equal to any difficulty, and an unswerving faithfulness to his trusting child, and an unforgetting steadiness in holding to his purpose. Through a fellow-prisoner, then a dream, he lifts Joseph from a prison to a premiership. And the length of stay in the prison prevents dizziness in the premier. It’s safe to trust God’s methods, and to go by his clock.
OPEN UPWARD
Genesis 41:14-24
God prefers using natural ways of working out his plans. Nature is really his method of working. He speaks to Pharaoh through a dream, so vivid that it seems distinctly significant. He makes clear to Joseph’s mental processes just what that significance is. Joseph is open to God. So he could get what was being given. Keep open to God in heart and head and life; and when you need rain look toward the sea.
KEEP IN TOUCH
Genesis 41:1-13
God is practical, so intensely practical. He can be depended on, absolutely, in every blind alley, for every sort of help needed. If a man’ll quietly, strongly keep in simple, full touch of heart and head and life with God, he’ll become equal to any emergency that comes. Wisdom, dollars, strength to hold true, gift of leadership, whatever is needed, will come, and it will come in time. The thing is to keep in touch and hold steady.
1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Think about these questions as you meditate on the verse. What does this verse teach me? How does this verse apply to my Life?
THE TIME-TEST
Genesis 41:33-44
God never forgets, and never fails. Waiting is the acid test of strength. The turn in the long road comes at last. It had been a long road for Joseph. It had been a desperately rough road, too. There was the slimy pit, the brothers’ treachery, the slave chains, the terrible palace temptation, and the prison cell. But strength believes God. It bides his time. It trusts in the darkest hour. And God never fails and never forgets.
