Please read Genesis 44.
www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/gen/44/1/s_44001
Meditate on verse 16.
So Judah said, “What can we say to my lord?
What can we speak? And how can we justify ourselves?
God has found out the iniquity of your servants;
behold, we are my lord’s slaves,
both we and the one in whose possession the cup has been found.
Recall Judah devised the plan to sell Joseph into slavery and lie that an animal killed him (Genesis 37:26). Judah slept with his daughter- in-law, Tamar, thinking she was a prostitute. She and Judah became the parents of twin sons (Genesis 38). Time changed Judah and over the course of twenty-two years, Judah became a different man. He promised his father to protect Benjamin with his life when Benjamin went to Egypt (Genesis 43:8-9). When Joseph’s silver cup was discovered in Benjamin’s sack of grain, Judah begged Joseph to let him take the punishment for Benjamin’s apparent crime. Judah was willing to give his life for his brother.
This sacrificial act on the part of Judah, brought the Joseph story to its climax, (Joseph revealed his true identity in Genesis 45:1), and it sealed Judah’s place in history for the coming of Messiah. The Judah of Genesis 44 is a picture of Jesus Christ. He was willing to be the substitutionary sacrifice for the life of Benjamin. He was the lion protecting his little brother. He is the father of the tribe from which King David and Jesus descended (Luke 2:1-7; 3:31-33).
Behold, the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David,
has overcome so as to open the book and its seven seals.
And I saw between the throne (with the four living creatures)
and the elders
a Lamb standing, as if slain ...
—Revelation 5:5-6
The baby you celebrate today is the Lion of Judah, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29)!
As a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7), pray Genesis 44:16 as a prayer of confession to your LORD.
“What can I say, my LORD? What can I
speak? How can I justify myself?
You know my iniquities. Behold, I am Your bond-slave.
You give me Your cup of salvation.
Thank You, Lion of Judah, Lamb of God.
In Your name, Jesus~”
The WATCHMAN on the WALL ~ Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell
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