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.
GOD IS DEPENDABLE
Psalms 105:1-22
“Providence” means that God sees ahead how things are going, and that he sees to it that nothing will hurt his trusting, obedient child. Jesus’ one concern in the Wilderness wasn’t about starving, but to keep true. The Father would attend to the bread in good time, even if he had to send angels. If we see to it that we obey faithfully and intelligently, God will see to it that all comes out well.
THE BIG THING
Colossians 3:18-25; Colossians 4:1
The love spirit lives true wherever it is, and whatever the relationship. We should be rightly eager to make the most of life’s opportunities, but whether one is slave or master, employee or employer, in hidden away corner or in the limelight, the thing that matters most is this: being true and pure just where we are, and, with this, being patiently, gently, thoughtfully loving in all personal contacts. So Jesus did, and so we should and may.
SENSITIVE GODWARD
Genesis 37:9-17
Dreams and visions are pretty much relegated to a dreamy, visionary, unpractical realm with us Western Hemisphere people, and quite rightly, as a rule. Yet there may be, with the earnest, thoughtful Christian, the cultivation of a sane, quiet sensitiveness of spirit toward God which enables us to discern ahead in spirit how things should go, and how they will turn out, and what decisions should be made. It is God’s touch guiding and helping us keep true.
