THE CHURCH IS THE STANDARD TO THE WORLD
DAILY DEVOTION
Today’s Bible Reading: Genesis 42 – 45
THE CHURCH IS THE STANDARD TO THE WORLD
Genesis 42:1-3(KJV); Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die. And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
In the times of Joseph, there was corn in Egypt and famine in Canaan.
This is in all aspects a reversal of the divine order.
The order is that there ought to be corn in Canaan and famine in Egypt.
As long as there is famine in Canaan and corn in Egypt, the church will always look to the world for answers.
However, when there is famine in Egypt and corn in Canaan, the world will always look to the church for answers.
We are meant to draw the world to the Church through the abundance of the Word of God and not for the world to draw children of God to it through the answers it avails in knowledge.
This is why we invest in the Word; it makes us answers to the world instead of the world being an answer to us.
Ephesians 1:23 MSG – The church, you see, is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ’s body, in which he speaks and acts, by which he fills everything with his presence.
God’s name be praised!
💡KNOW MORE: Hosea 4:6, Matthew 5:13-26
⭐HIGHLIGHT: We are meant to draw the world to the Church through the abundance of the Word of God and not for the world to draw children of God to it through the answers it avails in knowledge.
🙌PRAYER: Loving Father, thank you for these great times in which we live. This is a dispensation of broadness, times of knowledge and of revelation. Because I understand these times, I invest in the Word, study it, and live every moment of my life through its precepts. I have the bread of life and for this, I feed the world. In Jesus’ name. Amen.