So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same…

For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may have…

Father, for those who have both heard and believed but have turned away to the right or to the left and find themselves wandering in a wilderness,

When we are intent on loving God, what the world has to offer us will be less and less appealing. When we are intent on loving God, what the world has to offer us will be less and less appealing.

It bears great witness to Joseph’s character and to God’s sovereignty, both wonderful examples and encouragement to the Christian faith.