The Patient "Long Game" - Day 129 Month 5-9 Week 19-3
Today's Reading (Bible in 1 year) Deuteronomy 12, Psalm 105, John 4:7-4:38 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2012%2C%20Psalm%20105%2C%20John%204%3A7-4%3A38&version=NASB1995 The Patient “Long Game” Time and Patience. I always feel short of time and I struggle with patience. Moses talks to the Israelites in Deuteronomy about their history. He takes them all the way back to God’s promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob followed by Jacob’s son Joseph taken as a slave in Egypt. Then after about 20 years of being a slave and wrongful imprisonment, he gains great power and all of Jacob’s family (Israel) settles in Egypt. After many years, the new pharaoh starts to fear them because they became so numerous, and he forces them into slavery. They miraculously leave Egypt but end up spending 40 years in the wilderness. The time between Abraham being given the promise and entering the “promised land” was 470 years. It’s a remarkabl...