Daily Devotional 10-19-26
What You Carry
Reading: Genesis 37:18-28 - But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.
“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to each other. “Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what comes of his dreams.”
When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. “Let’s not take his life,” he said. “Don’t shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.
So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the ornate robe he was wearing— and they took him and threw him into the cistern. The cistern was empty; there was no water in it.
As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.
Judah said to his brothers, “What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood? Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.” His brothers agreed.
So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.
Devotional: Joseph's brothers did not stumble into cruelty. They planned it. They sat down and ate a meal while their brother pleaded from a pit. Hurt rarely arrives by accident. Sometimes it is chosen, deliberate, and personal. If you are carrying wounds that were intentionally inflicted, you are not imagining the weight of them. God does not ask you to pretend the pit was not real. He asks you to notice that Joseph survived it. What you are carrying today is not the end of your story. Bring it honestly before God and trust that he sees every detail of what happened to you.
Personal Reflection: What wound have you been carrying that you have never fully brought before God in honest prayer?
Reading: Genesis 37:18-28 - But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.
“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to each other. “Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what comes of his dreams.”
When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. “Let’s not take his life,” he said. “Don’t shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.
So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the ornate robe he was wearing— and they took him and threw him into the cistern. The cistern was empty; there was no water in it.
As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.
Judah said to his brothers, “What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood? Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.” His brothers agreed.
So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.
Devotional: Joseph's brothers did not stumble into cruelty. They planned it. They sat down and ate a meal while their brother pleaded from a pit. Hurt rarely arrives by accident. Sometimes it is chosen, deliberate, and personal. If you are carrying wounds that were intentionally inflicted, you are not imagining the weight of them. God does not ask you to pretend the pit was not real. He asks you to notice that Joseph survived it. What you are carrying today is not the end of your story. Bring it honestly before God and trust that he sees every detail of what happened to you.
Personal Reflection: What wound have you been carrying that you have never fully brought before God in honest prayer?
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