Judah in this
passage failed to keep his promise to Tamar, his daughter-in-law that she
should go back to her Father’s house and stay while his only surviving son
grows old enough to have a wife. And we have seen how this failed promise led
to Judah impregnating her when she disguised herself as a prostitute. Either ways,
the two characters exhibited in this passage shouldn’t have been but we know
that all things work together for good to them that love God. At the end of
this episode, Pharez who was given birth to in this course was named in the
lineage of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have also seen Joseph behave differently
from Judah. When evil came knocking at Joseph’s door, his master’s wife wanting
him to lie with her, he fled leaving his cloth behind. He couldn’t compromise
his love and fear for God.
We are expected
to follow this kind of goodly behavior as Joseph, who put his trust in the Lord
and refused Pharaoh’s wife destroying the good foundation their forefathers
laid for them, read Psalms 11:3. No wonder God favoured Joseph in the midst of
all these trials; Psalms 11:7, for the Lord loves the righteous, his countenance
beholds the upright.
Joseph shone
forth as the sun in the Kingdom of Our Father amidst trials and temptations,
which made him like a hidden treasure and that goodly pearl as recorded in
Matthew 13:36-58.
Prayer:
Lord Jesus, help
me to live a righteous life so as to be like a hidden treasure and a goodly
pearls in your name I pray, Amen.
Ref:
Bible in one year with Nicky Gumbel
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