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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Genesis 41:14-36
As this Pharaoh was troubled by a dream, men today are uneasy and anxious. The future worries them. They feel themselves to be at the mercy of unforeseeable catastrophes. However the Bible contains all that man can know on the subject of the future. But these prophecies are incomprehensible to those who do not have the Spirit of God. Pharaoh consults the wisest men in his kingdom in vain. Before God all human wisdom is not sufficient. Then Joseph appears. The doors of the prison are opened for him and he comes with wisdom from on high to bring "an answer of peace" to Pharaoh. He does not fail to say that this answer comes from God and not from himself (compare Daniel 2:28).
A Christian who knows his Bible knows more about the future of the world than the most far-seeing politicians. By the Holy Spirit, God has "given us an understanding" (read John 16:13; 1 John 2:20; 1 John 5:20).
Spiritually speaking our age is a period of great plenty. It will be followed for the world by a time of famine foretold by the prophets: "not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD" (Amos 8:11). The day of grace will have come to an end. Reader, are you ready?
