Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Genesis 42:1-5
by: Dorothy Noel.
“Why are you staring at one another?” Jacob’s sons seemed at a loss. They were living in a famine. There was no food to be found in Canaan. But they were not doing anything about it. There was no action, no motivation to try saving their families from starvation. In a sense, they seemed resigned to their fate—until Jacob woke them up and told them to go get food. Why didn’t one of them think of that first? God’s provision for tomorrow may not come from the same place from which God’s provision for today came. Like Jacob, may we notice when God is sending us relief from a new source.