FAITH CAPSULE: God is a gracious and merciful God.
Genesis 39
God cares to give His love but man care less to know about God’s loving care for man.
Bible recorded, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” (John 3:16-17)
Do you know about the love of God or do you know the love of God? To know the love of God is identified in 1 John 5:3, “For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments.” Keeping God’s commandment is doing His will, obeying the word of God. It takes sacrificial commitment to obey God’s commandment. With God, there is a set standard for every area of His expectation for us. God did not just ask for love rather He gave us a standard of acceptable love when He stated in Deuteronomy 6:5, “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” To love God means to give Him our all. Through the pages of the Bible, men and women that gave Him all were able to live a fulfilled life and accomplish great exploits to the glory of God. Men like Abraham, Joseph, Daniel and other giants loved God and were able to do great exploits. The giants in the hand of God’s approach to the issues of life clearly depict what it is to love God with all of their heart, soul and strength.
Do you know Jesus the love of God or you know about Jesus?
Are you identified with elaboration of celebration of the birth of Jesus or you are identified with lying, deception and manipulation?
The truth is that God cannot be deceived. Joseph by virtue of his challenge and temptation to deny his love for God he decided not deceived God.
Joseph the dreamer found himself in pit because his brothers hated him. He was sold as a slave to Potiphar’s house where he was tempted by his master’s wife. He could have become the object of his master’s wife when she could not resist from asking Joseph to lie with her. Joseph refused to sleep with his master’s wife. Joseph’s excuse not to take on his master’s wife was, “…how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God.” (Genesis 39:9)
Joseph love God and refused to enter into a way of wickedness towards God.
Joseph love God.
Every time our love for God overrides our love for self, heaven would be provoked for our lifting up. For Joseph, favor could not depart from him because he loved His God and demonstrated His love for God by not giving in to Potiphar’s wife.
Prayer for today: Ask God to help you to love Him fully.