IN the last couple months I’ve received two new Bibles. Whohoo! One I bought with a gift card that I received from The Harbor for being on staff for five years with LIFT! It’s a really nice leather ESV Study Bible. And another one I asked for for Christmas. I wanted to get back to the basics and read through the Jesus Storybook Bible alongside my new study Bible – the simple, childlike and the more detailed.
It’s been a great journey through Genesis so far. Joseph just told his brothers: “you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good” in chapter 50 and then he died at the age of 110. I’ve been trying to figure out what happened in those years of his life that weren’t recorded there. He went from 56 years old to 110 in a sentence!
And truly as I look at my life I’m afraid I’ve gone from 5-52 in a sentence... and recently I’ve been exploring things in my life that maybe were meant for evil, but God has definitely used for good. And I have to admit I am lacking something Joseph possessed. And when I figure it out – I’ll let you know. What about you? What have you been studying in His Word? What characters have you been studying? What characteristics are you working on? Is it time for a new Bible? Or time to dust off the one you have and start devouring His Word (Jeremiah 15:16)?
Proverb of the day: Chapter 15: here are some verses that stuck out to me:
Verse 1: A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Verse 7: The lips of the wise spread knowledge, not so the hearts of fools.
Verse 15: All the days of the afflicted are evil, but the cheerful of heart has a continual feast.
Verse 22: Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.
Verse 28: The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.
*Taken from LIFT weekly email.
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