Today’s devotion comes from Genesis Chapter 44 which covers Joseph’s plot of placement of his silver cup in Benjamin’s sack and which covers Judah’s plea for Benjamin. Here is a link to that chapter – http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+44&version=NASB
I quote the following verses.
“For your servant (Judah) became surety for the lad (Benjamin) to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then let me bear the blame before my father forever.’ Now, therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the lad a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brothers. For how shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with me—for fear that I see the evil that would overtake my father?” Genesis 44:32-34.
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When we read about Judah and his plea for Benjamin, we think about Christ and what He did for the beloved of the LORD.
Christ brought the beloved of the LORD who were lost, even dead in sin, back to the Father. Christ bore the sins of the beloved and the wrath of God, so that the beloved of the LORD would be saved. Christ preserves the beloved of the LORD to salvation. Christ states: “and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.” John 10:28-29.
“Now this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death. …
Of Benjamin he said,
“May the beloved of the Lord dwell in security by Him,
Who shields him all the day,
And he dwells between His shoulders.” Deuteronomy Chapter 33, Verses 1 and 12.
Psalm 91 provides beautiful and comforting images of the security of the beloved of the LORD.
“1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
Will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress,
My God, in whom I trust!”
3 For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper
And from the deadly pestilence.
4 He will cover you with His pinions,
And under His wings you may seek refuge;
His faithfulness is a shield and bulwark.
5 You will not be afraid of the terror by night,
Or of the arrow that flies by day;
6 Of the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
Or of the destruction that lays waste at noon.
7 A thousand may fall at your side
And ten thousand at your right hand,
But it shall not approach you.
8 You will only look on with your eyes
And see the recompense of the wicked.
9 For you have made the Lord, my refuge,
Even the Most High, your dwelling place.
10 No evil will befall you,
Nor will any plague come near your tent.
11 For He will give His angels charge concerning you,
To guard you in all your ways.
12 They will bear you up in their hands,
That you do not strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread upon the lion and cobra,
The young lion and the serpent you will trample down.
14 “Because he has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him securely on high, because he has known My name.
15 “He will call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will rescue him and honor him.
16 “With a long life I will satisfy him
And let him see My salvation.” Psalm Chapter 91.
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