12th November 2022 Our Daily Bread Saturday – Both Are True
Our Daily Bread Devotional for Saturday 12 November 2022 Message
12th November 2022 Our Daily Bread Saturday – Both Are True
Our Daily Bread Devotional for Saturday 12 November 2022 Message
Read and Digest OUR DAILY BREAD Devotional written by Dave Branon and was published to bless, inspire and uplift you every day as you benefit from the deep Insight of God’s infallible WORD.
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Bible in a Year: Jeremiah 51–52; Hebrews 9
Key Verse: It was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you. – Genesis 45:5
Today’s Scripture: Genesis 45:3–11
Today’s Insight: 12th November 2022 Our Daily Bread
After three decades, Feng Lulu was reunited with her birth family. As a toddler, she was kidnapped while playing outside her house, but through the help of All-China Women’s Federation, she was finally located. Because she was so young when she was abducted, Feng Lulu doesn’t remember it. She grew up believing she’d been sold because her parents couldn’t afford to keep her, so learning the truth surfaced many questions and emotions.
When Joseph was reunited with his brothers, it’s likely he experienced some complex emotions. He’d been sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt as a young man. Despite a series of painful twists and turns, God propelled Joseph to a position of authority. When his brothers came to Egypt to buy food during a famine, they—unwittingly—sought it from him.
Joseph acknowledged that God redeemed their wrongdoing, saying He used it to “save [their] lives by a great deliverance” (Genesis 45:7). Yet Joseph didn’t redefine their hurtful actions toward him—he described them accurately as “selling [him]” (v. 5).
We sometimes try to put an overly positive spin on difficult situations, focusing on the good God brings from them without acknowledging the emotional struggle. Let’s take care not to redefine a wrong as being good simply because God redeemed it: we can look for Him to bring good from it while still recognizing the pain wrongdoing causes. Both are true. By: Kirsten Holmberg
Today’s Reflection & Prayer
When have you experienced hardship as a result of another’s wrongdoing? How have you seen God bring good from it?
Father God, thank You for lovingly tending to my wounds.
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