It’s time for the final Five Minute Friday link-up of 2023! Where did the year go?!
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This week’s FMF writing prompt is: STORE
This past semester I’ve been leading a women’s Bible study at my church. We’ve been going through Jen Wilkin’s study, God of Covenant, on Genesis 12-50. This week we got to the first half of the story of Joseph, and read about how Joseph wisely interpreted Pharoah’s dreams and advised Pharoah to store up grain during the seven years of plenty so Egypt would have enough to survive and also share during the following seven years of severe famine.
In her closing comments during the video teaching portion, Jen Wilkin encouraged her listeners with the following:
“As those who are called to conform to the image of Christ, we too are called to share the bread of life with a world that is perishing of a spiritual famine.
. . . We are called to be those who think, ‘How can we conserve the truth of God in such a way that we have a bounty in ourselves that we then can let the overflow spill to people around us who are perishing before us for lack of the Word?’
We become the instruments by which the bread of life is distributed from baskets to feed the 5,000.
What a calling we have. What an example to follow.”
Her words really got me thinking:
How can I store up the Word and the love of Christ in my own heart to the point that it is naturally overflowing into the lives of others?
As a Christian writer, how can I store up truth and hope in my own life so I’m able to give and share with readers and others who need it?
It’s easy to get into a habit of giving, giving, giving of ourselves and spending our energy and efforts. But we can’t forget the storing up part.
May the Lord give us wisdom to store up His truth in our hearts during times of abundance and plenty so we can give of the overflow during times of spiritual famine.
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Join the link-up with your own five-minute freewrite on the prompt, STORE, below, then visit your link-up neighbor to read their post and leave an encouraging comment:Â
I once knew a quartermaster
who surely had been Scotland bred;
drawing supplies would have been faster
if the man were cold and dead.
He would hem and he would haw,
and stonily turn away,
thinking that his word was law,
and it sure turned out that way,
for even boots with floppy sole
would be closely scrutinized,
and request for pair more whole
would be summarily despised,
though there were pairs on the shelf;
you’d think he made the things himself!
Three minutes thirty five.
This study in Genesis sounds like a fabulous study. I did think of Joseph and storehouses when I saw your word. Merry Christmas and blessings of Jesus through the new year!