Category Archives: Bible

JANUARY 14 Reading 14“GOD WILL BE WITH YOU”Genesis 47–50 “I am about to die, but God will be with you and take you back to the land of your fathers” (Gen. 48:21). Genesis ends with Jacob’s family settled in Egypt. Yet the passing of the patriarchs marks the beginning, not the end, of what GodContinue reading “The 365-Day Devotional Commentary”

JANUARY 13 Reading 13WAIT AND SEEGenesis 42–46 “Now we must give an accounting for his blood” (Gen. 42:22). Twenty-two years had passed since Joseph’s brothers sold him as a slave. When famine drove the brothers to Egypt, and they applied to Egypt’s second most powerful man, they had no idea he was Joseph. Yet it’sContinue reading “The 365-Day Devotional Commentary”

JANUARY 12 Reading 12JOSEPHGenesis 37–41 “Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?” (Gen. 37:10) Few Bible characters are as admirable as Joseph. He suffered injustice after injustice, yet persevered. His faith was ultimately rewarded, and Joseph realized that God had used each painful experienceContinue reading “The 365-Day Devotional Commentary”

JANUARY 11 Reading 11A PLACE TO SETTLEGenesis 33–36 “I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone” (Gen. 35:3). At last Jacob returned not only to Canaan, but home. His 20 frustrating years with Laban were over, andContinue reading “The 365-Day Devotional Commentary”

JANUARY 10 Reading 10THE DECEIVER DECEIVEDGenesis 29–32 “Your father has cheated me by changing my wages ten times” (Gen. 31:7). Sometimes we must be put in the place of the cheated to realize why God calls us to live a truly godly life. OverviewJacob found his relatives, and married two sisters, Rachel and Leah (29:1–35).Continue reading “The 365-Day Devotional Commentary”