My very favorite part of today's reading: Joseph says to his brothers "Don't quarrel along the way"!!! He says this after he loads them up with gifts. It's a great reminder of how God blesses us and then we just 'quarrel with each other along the way'. I don't know what you think of Joel Osteen. I personally like him. I would not want him to be the only teaching I ever listen to but he's a great pick me up. But if you read online, there are people (presumably Christians) that make it their full time job (it seems) to pick him apart line by line. Don't they have anything better to do? Don't quarrel along the way!! Sometimes we do have to point out error but it should be only as much as needed to correct or impact the situation. I love it...Joseph sounds like a mother hen. Don't quarrel along the way.
The other thing that struck me was that Benjamin was given blessings 5 times the other brothers. The other brothers were forgiven, loved and blessed. But how much better to have not gotten tangled up in sin in the first place! I know he was Joseph's full brother, but I just couldn't help but think of that.
14 years ago
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