Religion & Spirituality
A podcast designed to help you engage with the Bible daily! Each day, we begin with a reading assignment, designed to take no longer than a few minutes. Then a few minutes of thoughts, comments and questions follow, to help you more fully engage with the text, and to consider throughout the day or to help you begin journaling. It's not the intent to be exhaustive in covering everything, or even to tell you what you should think about a given text. The main idea is to give you a starting point to begin thinking through and engaging with the text yourself, whether you a seasoned Bible student, or this is your first time reading the Bible. The reading selections are kept purposefully small, to make it as easy as possible to develop the discipline of regular Bible reading, and more importantly Bible engaging! It also helps make it possible to catch up if you fall behind a few days. March 15, 2017: Genesis 42 The famine reaches as far as Canaan, and Jacob sends his ten oldest sons down to Egypt to purchase grain. The ten sons come before their brother Joseph, who is distributing grain, and they bow down to him not knowing who he is. Joseph declares them to be spies, and the brothers discuss among themselves that this evil they are experiencing must be because of what they had done to their brother Joseph. Eventually, Joseph allows the brothers to purchase grain, but keeps Simeon as a hostage, requiring that the brothers bring their youngest brother Benjamin (Joseph's only full brother) down to Egypt. As the brothers return to Canaan, they discover the money they had used to pay for the grain still in their sacks. Their father Jacob is completely against allowing Benjamin to go down to Egypt whatsoever. Question to consider: * We have seen a pattern of duplicitous actions taken by Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph’s brothers. Is there anything about Joseph’s deception that is different than the deceptions of his relatives? * What can you tell of Reuben’s character at this point in his life, from his interactions with his brothers, and his father?