Tuesday, February 11th | Genesis 44

Passage:
30 “Now therefore, as soon as I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy’s life, 31 as soon as he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol. 32 For your servant became a pledge of safety for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.’ 33 Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers. 34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would find my father.”

(Genesis 44:30-34 ESV)

Song:
Love Will Never Fail by Aaron Keyes, Isaac Wardell, Leslie Jordan, Orlando Palmer, and Paul Zach

Lyrics:
Love is patient love is kind
It has no arrogance or pride
It seeks the good of others first
It keeps no record of wrong or hurt
It finds no joy in wickedness
But rejoices in the truth
Through it all it will endure
Love will never fail

Love will never never fail
Love will never never fail
Love will never never fail
Love will never fail

Though all prophecy will cease
Though all knowledge it will fade
Oh an end will come to speech
Even death will pass away
We will see You face to face
And Your mercy will prevail
Faith and hope they will remain
Love will never fail

Love love will never fail
Love love will never fail

Prayer:
Begin in me a new and godly life, Lord, devoted to your praise forever. Help me to put off the self and be made a new creature, putting on righteousness, holiness, innocence, and eternal life… For the sake of your love, which made you willing to be taken and bound, loose me from the bonds of all sins, and instead secure me in the loving strings of your will. Grant, dear Lord, that I may be always ready to suffer gladly all kind of taunts, injuries, contempt, and slander for your name’s sake. By your grace, divert my affections, my words, and my deeds to your glory forever. Amen.
-John Bradford