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My Song In The Night (Genesis)
我夜间的歌曲《创世记》

My Song In The Night (Genesis)
我夜间的歌曲《创世记》 
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Day 362

Text: Genesis 47: 18-19

MEDITATION

Genesis 47:18-19

18 When that year had ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that our money is gone; my lord also has our herds of livestock. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our lands.
19 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants of Pharaoh; give us seed, that we may live and not die, that the land may not be desolate.”

MEANINGFUL APPLICATION TO LIFE

1. The severe famine in quick review

a. The Egyptians had money to purchase food.
b. Then they ran out of money.
c. They sold their livestock to Joseph.
d. They were given food for a whole year.

2. The following year

a. They had no money nor livestock to trade with.
b. They only had two other things to offer:
i. The land they owned.
ii. Their bodies.

3. The plea of the Egyptians

a. If they do not have food, they would die.
b. They offered:
i. Their land to be sold to the Pharaoh.
ii. They would sell themselves as slaves to the Pharaoh too.
c. They needed seed (food..
d. If they died, the land of Egypt would become desolate.
e. This was surely unthinkable!

经文：创世记 47:18-19

沉思

《创世记 47：18-19》
18 那一年过去，第二年他们又来见约瑟，说：“我们不瞒我主，我们的银子都花尽了，牲畜也都归了我主。我们在我主眼前，除了我们的身体和田地之外，一无所剩。

19 你何忍见我们人死地荒呢？求你用粮食买我们和我们的地，我们和我们的地就要给法老效力。又求你给我们种子，使我们得以存活，不致死亡，地土也不致荒凉。”

在生活里有意义地应用

1. 回顾甚大的饥荒

a. 埃及人有银子籴粮食
b. 然后他们没银子了
c. 他们把牲畜卖给了约瑟
d. 给他们整整一年的粮食

2. 次年

a. 他们没有银子也没有牲畜可以交换
b. 他们只能提供另外两样东西：
i. 他们拥有的田地
ii. 他们的身体

3. 埃及人的恳求

a. 如果他们没有粮食，他们将会死
b. 他们提出：
i. 把田地卖给法老
ii. 将自己卖给法老当奴隶
c. 他们需要种子（粮食）
d. 如果他们死了，埃及地将变得荒凉
e. 这是不可想象的！