🔑 *KEY VERSE:*
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." [Matthew 5:8]
📖 *TODAY'S READING:*
Genesis 39:1-15
📜 *ONE YEAR BIBLE STUDY PLAN*
Leviticus 11-13
*COMMENTARY*
Man looks at physical appearances but God looks at the heart.
The members of the church today are actors, professors and more often than not Christians. God has little regard for hypocrites. Most of the sermons of Jesus in the New Testament were a crush on the disposition. The undue veneration of material acquisition over character and virtue is our greatest undoing nowadays. Patriarchal, Mosaic and Christian generations honor character and virtue as attributes that manifest divinity. Paul states in Hebrew that God is a rewarder of diligent worshippers. On our text, Joseph was exposed to vigorous trials and temptations, he was not found wanting. As a result, God rewarded his diligence by creating an office that had never existed and caused him to occupy it.
Tunde Ojo, a secondary school student in Nigeria picked a lost mobile phone that belonged to an expatriate. He returned the phone without obligation and was appreciated financially by the owner he refused financial compensation. The foreigner could not believe a Nigerian student was capable of such feat. L.IF.E. Initiative, an NGO awarded Tunde a scholarship for a 4-year term, in a Nigerian University. For this uncommon life of integrity. The Nations Newspaper, 25 June, 2015, p. 39]. Tunde has pure heart and experienced the miracle of wholesome-character.
We are all capable of such feat.
God, every day is testing the elects. Nobody chooses his test or trial.
God allows the experience to come our ways in order to bring out the real us. It can come from any angle. The scripture describes God as a rewarder. It states that only diligent-seekers does God reward. What is the meaning of diligence? Passionate, earnestness, efficient, effectual, effective, perseverance, carefulness and calmness. When we manifest God's glory and goodness in our universe, that is life style evangelism. God rewards us in this life and the life to come.
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🎚 *CONTROLLING THOUGHTS*
Every sincere service in the name of the Lord, will receive His reward.
🙏🏿 *PRAYER*
Lord, please help me to serve you passionately.
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