DAILY TEXT, Today Thursday, February 29, 2024, Who is going to separate us from the love of Christ? Difficulties? The anguish? The chasing? (Rom. 8:35).

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Thursday February 29, 2024

Who is going to separate us from the love of Christ? Difficulties? The anguish? The chasing? (Rom. 8:35).

As servants of Jehovah, trials do not take us by surprise. We know what the Bible says: “We must go through many difficulties to enter the Kingdom of God” (Acts 14:22). And we also know that some of our problems will only be definitively resolved when we live in the new world, where “death will be no more, neither will there be sadness nor crying nor pain anymore” (Rev. 21:4). Jehovah does not prevent us from going through trials, but he does help us endure them. Let's look at something that the apostle Paul said to the Christians living in Rome. After mentioning the trials he and his brothers were going through, he wrote to them: “Thanks to him who loved us, we came out completely victorious over all these things” (Rom. 8:36, 37). This means that Jehovah can make us successful even during a trial. w23.01 14 paras. 1, 2.

WHEN AN UNEXPECTED CHANGE OCCURRES

How did José's life change overnight?

It was no secret that the patriarch Jacob loved his son Joseph very much (Gen. 37:3, 4). That's why Joseph's older brothers began to feel jealous of him. And when the opportunity arose, they sold it to some Midianite merchants. Those men took Joseph to Egypt, which was hundreds of miles away. And there they sold him again, this time to Potiphar, chief of Pharaoh's guard. Joseph's life changed overnight: he went from being a beloved son to being a slave in Egypt (Gen. 39:1).

What situations similar to José's could we face?

The Bible says, “Evil times come to everyone” (Eccl. 9:11). Sometimes we face what is common to all people, that is, problems that any human being can have (1 Cor. 10:13). Or we may suffer ridicule, opposition, or even persecution simply because we are disciples of Jesus (2 Tim. 3:12). In any case, Jehovah can make us successful. Let's see how he helped Joseph.

What did Potiphar realize? (Genesis 39:2-6).

(Read Genesis 39:2-6). Potiphar saw that Joseph was a competent and hard-working young man. And he understood why that was so. He realized “that Jehovah was with Joseph and that Jehovah made sure that everything he did went well.”b Later, Potiphar appointed him as his personal assistant and put him in charge of the entire household. of the. As a result, this man received many blessings.

How must José feel?

Let's try to put ourselves in José's place. What did he want most? Get Potiphar's attention so he would reward him? Surely, what he wanted most was to be free and return to his father's house. At the end of the day, no matter how many privileges he had, he was still a slave to a man who worshiped other gods. Jehovah did not have Potiphar release Joseph. And on top of that things were going to get much worse.

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