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This is from the confession
Honor your father and mother, and your days will be blessed. Jacob contemplates his long history filled with selfishness, dishonor, and greed and chooses to see the abundance of God by honoring Pharaoh with a blessing.
QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK: Generosity - Honored Blessing
How is honoring different from loving?
Read Genesis 47:1-12. How does Jacob describe his life?
At the end of his life, how and why does he honor Pharoah? What is surprising about that?
In what ways are parents God’s earthly representatives? Living in the abundance of God, how can we be free to honor our parents and leaders around us?
What Had happened at Grace this week.
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The Book of Judges, though a difficult read, confronts us with the ugly truth of how easily we turn away from God and calls us to acknowledge and confess our own sins instead of ignoring them or destroying others.