FAITH CAPSULE: Man takes distance from Jesus, but Jesus remains closer to man.

Genesis 37

Have you been forsaken where you are looking forward to being embraced? It can be emotional exhausting or exceedingly discouraging when man encounters disengagement in the place where is to be embraced. Among the best way to describe forsaken experience is in the story of Joseph and his brothers. Israel (Jacob) called on his son Joseph to go and see if it is well with his brothers and the flocks. Jacob expected Joseph to go and return with word, but Joseph walked into unexpected journey which led to divine assignment for his life.
Bible recorded brothers of Joseph response at the approach of Joseph to them, “Now when they saw him afar off, even before he came near them, they conspired against him to kill him. Then they said to one another, “Look, this dreamer is coming! Come therefore, let us now kill him and cast him into some pit; and we shall say, ‘Some wild beast has devoured him.’ We shall see what will become of his dreams!” (Genesis 37:18-20)
Joseph went forward to his brothers in peace while the brothers responded with bitterness and wicked agenda. Imagine the brothers and Joseph, all raised under the same roof with same training from the same father. They all played, ate, drank and worked together yet they conspired against their younger brother because of his dream.
Jesus came for man with demonstration of unfailing love. Jesus came with agenda to give life abundantly to all man. At His time, man conspired against Him, today man still conspires against Him. Word of God is true as documented in Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” Despite wicked ways of man, the birth of Jesus is a top-notch celebration at every month of December by man. At celebration of Jesus’ birth, man is full of self-agenda with lack of understand to receive and believe in Jesus as Lord and savior. What is holding man back from living life for God in the name of Jesus? Certainly, God does not sleep nor slumber. God watches over every agenda of man under heaven. Man takes distance from Jesus, but Jesus remains closer to man waiting to act for man that will make the choice to wait on Him.
The brothers of Jesus were desperately wicked and when he got to his brothers, “…they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him. Then they took him and cast him into a pit. And the pit was empty; there was no water in it” (Genesis 37: 23-24)
Are you responding to Jesus just like the brothers of Joseph’s response to Joseph? The story of Joseph is the evidence that God watched over Joseph and He is still watching today. Seek God, give life to Jesus in your celebration.

Prayer for the day: Ask for Jesus’ abundance life for man to answer in your life.