Genesis 44 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Genesis 44.

www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/gen/44/1/s_44001

Meditate on verse 16a.

 

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…

 

Recall Judah devised the plan to sell Joseph into slavery then lie about an animal killing him (Genesis 37:26).  Judah slept with his daughter- in-law, Tamar, thinking she was a prostitute and fathered twin sons by her (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.  When Joseph’s silver cup was discovered in Benjamin’s grain sack, Judah begged Joseph to let him take the punishment, offering his life for the life of his brother.

This sacrificial act on the part of Judah, brought the Joseph story to its climax, and sealed Judah’s place in history for the coming of Messiah.  Judah 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 was 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.

—Revelation 5:5

 

Jesus 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, Jesus.


In whose name, I pray~”

 

The WATCHMAN on the WALL – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell